From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 16 15:10:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AFE837B41C for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 15:10:26 -0800 (PST) Received: from [212.238.194.207] (helo=tanya.raggedclown.net) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16FkQL-0006BN-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 23:10:25 +0000 Received: by tanya.raggedclown.net (tanya.raggedclown.net, from userid 500) id 585AB1145; Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:10:20 +0100 (CET) Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 00:10:20 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange Behaviour 'ls' Message-ID: <20011216231020.GA5431@raggedclown.net> References: <9vj6q4$6pr$1@news1.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9vj6q4$6pr$1@news1.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.24i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:20:26PM +0100, hjs wrote: > Hi, > > For some reason ls is not behaving anymore as I am used to. > Whenever I run ls without any parameters all output is sent to one line that > is wrapped at the edges of my screen. Whenever I provide parameters > (like -al) I don't get any output whatsoever. I can't even get it to > generate an error message by providing unused parameters. > > Does anyone have an idea on what I might have done to get my system to > behave like this and more important, how can I get ls to behave like the out > of the box bhaviour again? > > I am running FreeBSD 4.2 and a bash shell. > Sounds like the "ls" you are running is not the real "ls". Send output from: type ls That tells you where ls, then get the output from the command file path_to_ls Where path_to_ls is what "type" tells you. and send that as well. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message