Can I copy one shell "zsh" from one server to another.

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi Guys,

We are doing one production migration,
we have copied "/etc/shells" file form old to new server.
/etc/shells file contains below entries:-

bash-3.2# more /etc/shells
/bin/false
/bin/csh
/bin/jsh
/bin/ksh
/bin/rksh
/bin/rsh
/sbin/sh
/sbin/zsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/usr/bin/bash
/usr/bin/csh
/usr/bin/jsh
/usr/bin/rksh
/usr/bin/ksh
/usr/bin/sh
/usr/bin/tcsh
/usr/bin/zsh
/usr/local/bin/pwsh

but one shell is missing:-

bash-3.2# ls -l /sbin/zsh
/sbin/zsh: No such file or directory
bash-3.2# 
on my old prod server it is present and has no link;-
-bash-3.00$ cd /sbin
-bash-3.00$ ls -l zsh
-r-xr-xr-x   1 root     bin       507912 Jan 23  2005 zsh
-bash-3.00$

so can i copy this "zsh" shell from my old production server to new prod server ?
Will it cause any issue?
Please advise.
Thanks,
Manali
---------- Post added 04-26-13 at 10:19 AM ----------
System is Solaris 10

2

You should not copy raw executable files, you should install the appropriate package. This will track whether any dependencies for it are needed.

3

You can get the package name with

grep /sbin/zsh /var/sadm/install/contents
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