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Date:      16 Dec 2001 19:13:23 -0500
From:      Joe Clarke <marcus@marcuscom.com>
To:        "Stofregen, H.J." <hjs@thestof.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Strange Behaviour 'ls'
Message-ID:  <1008548003.9611.12.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com>
In-Reply-To: <LFEPJEIHMHCPEKNKGFHDCENMCBAA.hjs@thestof.com>
References:  <LFEPJEIHMHCPEKNKGFHDCENMCBAA.hjs@thestof.com>

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On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 19:01, Stofregen, H.J. wrote:
> Joe,
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have another 4.2 system. Would you have an idea on how
> I would build a fresh ls?
> 
> Should I go to /usr/src/bin/ls and do
> make depend && make && make install

That will work. 

Joe

> 
> I found the following tree on my HDD:
> /usr/src/bin/ls
> /usr/src/bin/ls/Makefile
> /usr/src/bin/ls/cmp.c
> /usr/src/bin/ls/extern.h
> /usr/src/bin/ls/ls.1
> /usr/src/bin/ls/ls.c
> /usr/src/bin/ls/ls.h
> /usr/src/bin/ls/print.c
> /usr/src/bin/ls/util.c
> 
> 
> Kind Regards,
> Stof
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Clarke [mailto:marcus@marcuscom.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 0:51
> To: hjs
> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: Re: Strange Behaviour 'ls'
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2001-12-16 at 18:41, hjs wrote:
> > Cliff,
> >
> > The commands you provided me produce the following output:
> >
> > bash-2.04$ type ls
> > ls is /bin/ls
> > bash-2.04$ file /bin/ls
> > /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
> > dynamically linked, not stripped
> 
> That's odd.  Everything in /bin and /sbin should be statitcally linked
> since those tools are needed to boot or recover a system before /usr
> (and the linker and shared objects) are mounted.
> 
> Have you replaced /bin/ls with something like gnuls or colorls?  Has
> someone perhaps hacked your machine, and replaced ls with a malicious
> tool?  My ls on 4.4-stable built last night looks like:
> 
> # file /bin/ls
> /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
> statically linked, stripped
> # cksum /bin/ls
> 2143685499 294300 /bin/ls
> 
> >From 4.4-RELEASE:
> # file /bin/ls
> /bin/ls: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
> statically linked, stripped
> # cksum /bin/ls
> 3683638805 294300 /bin/ls
> 
> Sorry, I don't have a 4.2 machine to compare for you.  Have a look at
> your ls.  If you have another working 4.2 box, compare the checksums.
> 
> Joe
> 
> >
> >
> > Thank you for your prompt response.
> >
> > Kind Regards,
> > Stof
> >
> >
> > "Cliff Sarginson" <cliff@raggedclown.NET> wrote in message
> > news:list.freebsd.questions#20011216231020.GA5431@raggedclown.net...
> > > On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 11:20:26PM +0100, hjs wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > For some reason ls is not behaving anymore as I am used to.
> > > > Whenever I run ls without any parameters all output is sent to one
> line
> > that
> > > > is wrapped at the edges of my screen. Whenever I provide parameters
> > > > (like -al) I don't get any output whatsoever. I can't even get it to
> > > > generate an error message by providing unused parameters.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have an idea on what I might have done to get my system to
> > > > behave like this and more important, how can I get ls to behave like
> the
> > out
> > > > of the box bhaviour again?
> > > >
> > > > I am running FreeBSD 4.2 and a bash shell.
> > > >
> > > Sounds like the "ls" you are running is not the real "ls".
> > > Send output from:
> > >
> > > type ls
> > >
> > > That tells you where ls, then get the output from the command
> > >
> > > file path_to_ls
> > >
> > > Where path_to_ls is what "type" tells you.
> > > and send that as well.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > Regards
> > > Cliff
> > >
> > >
> > >
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> 
> 
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