Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 01:30:54 -0600 From: Jon Hamilton <hamilton@pobox.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: mmercer@ipass.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: removing a.out executables found in /usr/sbin? Message-ID: <19990402073055.3F1F8155@woodstock.monkey.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 02 Apr 1999 13:22:58 %2B0930." <19990402132258.V413@lemis.com>
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In message <19990402132258.V413@lemis.com>, Greg Lehey wrote: } 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. Unless there _is_ no new version; /sbin/dset is a good example of cruft that gets left behind after upgrading to 3.1, and there are other examples as well. -- Jon Hamilton hamilton@pobox.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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