From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Dec 12 14:54:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2070737B417 for ; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:54:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org ([12.233.149.189]) by rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.27 201-229-121-127-20010626) with ESMTP id <20011212225427.KFHQ5010.rwcrmhc51.attbi.com@bmah.dyndns.org>; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 22:54:27 +0000 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id fBCMsQP21381; Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:54:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200112122254.fBCMsQP21381@bmah.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 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> Comments: In-reply-to Sam Drinkard message dated "Wed, 12 Dec 2001 17:43:14 -0500." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_760074144P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2001 14:54:26 -0800 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 --==_Exmh_760074144P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Sam Drinkard wrote: > 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? Errr...what utility are you running? file(1) seems to work OK for me...it's been through at least one update since 4.3-RELEASE, IIRC. nimitz:bmah% file .emacs .emacs: Lisp/Scheme program text nimitz:bmah% which file /usr/bin/file nimitz:bmah% ls /usr/share/misc/file ls: /usr/share/misc/file: No such file or directory nimitz:bmah% uname -a FreeBSD nimitz.packetdesign.com 4.4-STABLE FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE #15: Mon Dec 3 16:27:53 PST 2001 root@nimitz.packetdesign.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/NIMITZ i386 Bruce. --==_Exmh_760074144P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE8F+Ai2MoxcVugUsMRAu6SAKDPgVLFxb8YdLi+b8UsHmZ4Rlu3AACcC8Zc wp0Z9QjLGjAIKjuCd+lQdhg= =PVGL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_760074144P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message