From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Aug 18 09:13:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10306 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:13:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feoh.nmarcom.com (feoh.nmarcom.com [209.146.217.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09624 for ; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 09:07:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from thelab@nmarcom.com) Received: from localhost (thelab@localhost) by feoh.nmarcom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA12122; Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:04:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 12:04:39 -0400 (EDT) From: The Lab To: David Martin cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.7 errors In-Reply-To: <003f01bdcab6$4cfbf040$6ffc34cc@sdln.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This happened to me when i upgraded to pine4, considering that my editor is pico from that package. I downgraded to pine3 again and everything went fine. On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, David Martin wrote: > 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 > ================================================================ Will 'Mit' Rowe Systems Administrator/Programmer Neray MarCom, Inc. vox: (416)481-5405 25 Imperial Street, Suite 210 fax: (416)481-3741 Toronto, Ontario, Canada http://www.nmarcom.com M5P 1B9 ICQ: 7161728 Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -- Jules de Gaultier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message