From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 07:44:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA27614 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:44:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gold.sdln.net (gold.sdln.net [204.52.252.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA27607 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 07:44:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dmartin@sdln.net) Received: from david (david.sdln.net [204.52.252.111]) by gold.sdln.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA12715 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:44:01 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from dmartin@sdln.net) From: "David Martin" To: Subject: 2.2.7 errors Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 08:41:36 -0600 Message-ID: <003f01bdcab6$4cfbf040$6ffc34cc@sdln.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.0518.4 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, It seems that every file that root touches on my freebsd 2.2.7 machine inherit a line full of U's. This is very frustrating, especially when trying to install programs such as perl or apache because it sticks the U's in front of the #!/bin/sh. The problem also appears in ordinary files. For instance, after adding myself to the wheel group in /etc/group it decided to put the U's in front of wheel. This of course screwed everything up and doing a ls -al of / showed that the files belonged to root UUUUUUUwheel. This is easy to fix, as long as it's a normal file, just pico and remove the U's. However when doing the perl install it put's the U's in front of #!/bin/sh and then the install program can't find the shell so it aborts. Has anyone else had a similar experience? I've installed freebsd 2.2.7 on several machines and have this problem on each. I'm going to go to 3.0 just to see if the problem goes away. I do know that it didn't happen under 2.2.6. By the way, each machine has a basic freebsd install without x. The only addon programs are pine and tcp_wrappers. I didn't really know what to search for under freebsd's search engine, so if somebody's already answered a question similar to this please point me to the answer. thanks for your help. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message