Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:41:38 +0100 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/chown linked to /bin/echo? Message-ID: <m3d6nvyrql.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org> In-Reply-To: <20021221062053.GA12565@rot13.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:20:54 -0800") References: <5.2.0.9.0.20021220231027.02d06908@magpie.zpfe.com> <20021221062053.GA12565@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: > On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:15:18PM -0600, Steve Peterson wrote: > >> My other FreeBSD machine doesn't have any entry for chown in /bin, so I >> suspect this is leftover cruft from a previous release. > > It's never been this way in stock FreeBSD. Either someone did this > deliberately on your system, or you installed some very bizarre > software at some point that broke your installation. There is some multiple-binaries-in-one-file stuff that is popular on boot floppies (I know for instance Debian Linux ships those for its install system), did someone install such a thing in Steve's /bin/chown, perhaps by accident? -- Matthias Andree To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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