From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 1 19:54: 7 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCFA215E36 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 1999 19:53:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id NAA15723; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:22:59 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA94877; Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:22:58 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990402132258.V413@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 2 Apr 1999 13:22:58 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: mmercer@ipass.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing a.out executables found in /usr/sbin? References: <370436AD.B1FDDFBD@ipass.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <370436AD.B1FDDFBD@ipass.net>; from Michael E. Mercer on Thu, Apr 01, 1999 at 10:17:01PM -0500 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 1 April 1999 at 22:17:01 -0500, Michael E. Mercer wrote: > Hello all, > > I have found a few executables in /usr/sbin that are > a.out format...(at least that is what the command 'file' is telling > me) > > Is it feasible to delete these files with no impact??? That depends on whether you want to use them or not :-) > I would assume a 'make world' recompiled everything it needed > in ELF format, therefore any a.out format files would not be > needed?!?!?! I don't think they're from FreeBSD. If so, they would have been overwritten by new versions. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message