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Date:      Wed, 23 May 2007 22:58:12 +0200
From:      Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl>
To:        Martin McCormick <martin@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Can't Figure out What I Did to Our Environment FreeBSD6.2.
Message-ID:  <20070523205812.GD3705@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200705232031.l4NKVRRk000126@dc.cis.okstate.edu>
References:  <200705232031.l4NKVRRk000126@dc.cis.okstate.edu>

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On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 03:31:27PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote:
> 	I discovered that the "file" utility works for some
> accounts on a new FreeBSD system but not others.  When it
> doesn't work, the response is:
>=20
> file: could not find any magic files!
>=20
> 	If I am su'd to root, me, or any of several other
> accounts on the system, I get that same error.  Still other user
> ID's in the same class can use file just fine.

> 	Any other suggestions at what I should look at?  This is
> one of those dumb things that is driving me crazy today.:-)  All
> I know is I probably caused this but I am at a loss as to how.

Maybe the ownership and/or permissions of /usr/share/misc are wrong?

Roland
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R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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