Hi,

I use Swaret to keep my Slackware installation current. It appears to have done something which it shouldn't have. My /bin/sh seems to be missing.

I used Swaret the same way I always do:
swaret --update
swaret --upgrade
choose packages to update
update

It upgraded aaa_base-10.2.0-noarch-3 and bash-3.1-i486-3 but after that it couldn't upgrade anything else anymore giving the error: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

I confirmed this, the sh binary isn't there anymore. Weird thing is, afaik it didn't get deleted by the two updates..

But, now having no shell, hardly anything works, anybody knows how I can resolve it? In which package does Slackware ship the sh binary?

Thanks!

/bin/sh is normally just a link to /bin/bash - maybe that got deleted by your bash-upgrade...?
or just
will recreate it

Sorry about your installation. Here's package http://slackware.it/en/pb/package.ph...0.2.0-noarch-2
here's bash http://slackware.it/en/pb/package.ph...ash-3.0-i486-3
and quote:
I would make an ultraquick "reinstall" the way denning saved my installation on this post http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=243799
I'm almost sure it should work, good luck

/bin/sh is nothing special - it is just a link to /bin/bash which is the default shell on (almost - since I can't be sure...) all linux systems.

The second package referenced by mannyslack contains bash

The first contains the empty directory-tree mentioned - and if you look at the script "doinst.sh" in the install directory of the package, you will see that this _should_ have done exactly what I suggested:

6 lines before the end, /bin/sh gets deleted
5 lines before the end the link gets recreated

If /bin/bash is still there - but not /bin/sh - then you can eighter make the symlink yourself - or install the aaa_base package again