From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 12 14:54: 4 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-65-31-201-166.mmcable.com [65.31.201.166]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 15E0337B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:53:59 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 48531 invoked by uid 100); 12 Dec 2001 22:53:51 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15383.57343.69989.600718@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 16:53:51 -0600 To: Sam Drinkard Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: file broken In-Reply-To: <3C17DD82.73F632A9@vortex.wa4phy.net> References: <3C17DD82.73F632A9@vortex.wa4phy.net> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA v0.42/Python 2.1.1 (freebsd4) From: "Mike Meyer" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sam Drinkard types: > Just discovered the utility /usr/share/misc/file is either broken or has > changed behavior. Now, in order to determine what a file is, I must > append the -i switch. Did I miss or mess something up in the upgrade > from 4.3-R to 4.4-Stable? File changed so that it now has precompiled "magic" files. They should have been installed when you installed the world. Try doing "make install" in /usr/src/usr.bin/file, and see if that doesn't happen now. If not, you'll need to build and install them yourself. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message