From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 20 21:16:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE5D937B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:16:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from zpfe.com (dev06.eqp.zpfe.com [209.46.51.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04C1243ED8 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 21:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from stevep-hv@zpfe.com) Received: (qmail 378 invoked from network); 21 Dec 2002 05:15:42 -0000 Received: from dev08.eqp.zpfe.com (HELO petunia.zpfe.com) (209.46.51.24) by dev06.eqp.zpfe.com with SMTP; 21 Dec 2002 05:15:42 -0000 Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.0.20021220231027.02d06908@magpie.zpfe.com> X-Sender: (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:15:18 -0600 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org From: Steve Peterson Subject: /bin/chown linked to /bin/echo? Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed 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 Just spent the last hour bashing my head against the wall trying to get the Tomcat startup script running, and traced it down to the "chown" silently failing. Well, it was actually not quite silent -- it was running echo instead. lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 9 Oct 23 2001 chown -> /bin/echo This on a system that started as a 4.2 install, IIRC. My other FreeBSD machine doesn't have any entry for chown in /bin, so I suspect this is leftover cruft from a previous release. Any reason why I shouldn't just blow the link away? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message