From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 27 13:51:24 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38B2816A41F for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:51:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from smtpout1.ywave.com (ycomradius.yelmtel.com [216.227.100.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CA54D43D48 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:51:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: (qmail 27451 invoked by uid 502); 27 Oct 2005 13:51:22 -0000 Received: from dsl28217.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.65?) (micahjon@ywave.com@216.227.115.217) by 0 with SMTP; 27 Oct 2005 13:51:22 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 216.227.115.217 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl28217.ywave.com Message-ID: <4360DB59.7010900@ywave.com> Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 06:51:21 -0700 From: Micah User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20050930) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Andrew P." References: <17247.39311.203645.265116@jerusalem.litteratus.org> <200510262115.48144.krinklyfig@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Robert Huff , Joshua Tinnin , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which version of FreeBSD a binary was compiled for? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 13:51:24 -0000 Andrew P. wrote: > On 10/27/05, Joshua Tinnin wrote: > >>On Wed 26 Oct 05 09:18, "Andrew P." wrote: >> >>>On 10/26/05, Robert Huff wrote: >>> >>>>Andrew P. writes: >>>> >>>>> > file /usr/bin/man >>>>> > >>>>> > on my machine outputs: >>>>> > >>>>> > /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version >>>>> > 1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 5.4-CURRENT (rev 3), dynamically >>>>> > linked (uses shared libs), stripped >>>>> >>>>> Oh, it's just that file hasn't leared anything about >>>>> FreeBSD 6 yet, so it doesn't display version info >>>>> when run against my binaries. >>>> >>>> Curious. >>>> >>>>huff@> file /usr/bin/man >>>>/usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 >>>>(FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 7.0 (700003), dynamically linked (uses >>>>shared libs), stripped huff@> >>> >>>I tried both versions of file (base system and ports) >>>on 6.0 RC1, none showed any info about that >>>/usr/bin/man (or any other system binary I tried). >>> >>>On my firewall (5.4) it works. >> >>That's odd. Am on 6.0-RC1: >> >># uname -a >>FreeBSD smogmonster.local 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #0: Thu Oct 20 >>14:41:23 MDT 2005 >>krinklyfig@smogmonster.local:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/MYKERNEL60 i386 >> >>% file /usr/bin/xargs >>/usr/bin/xargs: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 >>(FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), dynamically linked (uses shared >>libs), stripped >> >>% file /usr/bin/man >>/usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 >>(FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), dynamically linked (uses shared >>libs), stripped >> >>% file /bin/echo >>/bin/echo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), >>for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), >>stripped >> >> >>I know I built valgrind just a few days ago: >> >>% file /usr/local/bin/valgrind >>/usr/local/bin/valgrind: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version >>1 (FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), statically linked, stripped >> >>vim, too: >> >>% file /usr/local/bin/vim >>/usr/local/bin/vim: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 >>(FreeBSD), for FreeBSD 6.0 (600034), dynamically linked (uses shared >>libs), stripped >> >> >>I'm not sure what it means when this information isn't accessible, but >>I'd say it's symptomatic of another issue, and most likely it's not >>good. If you built from source, did you follow the procedure described >>in the handbook? >>http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html >> >>Not sure, but are you installing kernel after building world, and then >>installing world in single user? I've seen strange things happen if you >>don't do this procedure the right way. Of course, I'm just guessing, as >>I'm not at all sure what could be causing this problem or what your >>exact circumstances are. >> >>- jt >>_______________________________________________ >>freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >>http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >>To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > > > sat64% uname -a > FreeBSD sat64.net17 6.0-RC1 FreeBSD 6.0-RC1 #2: Fri Oct 14 22:57:08 MSD 2005 > sat@sat64.net17:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SATCUR32 i386 > > sat64% file /usr/bin/xargs > /usr/bin/xargs: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dyn > amically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > sat64% file /usr/bin/man > /usr/bin/man: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynam > ically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > sat64% file /bin/echo > /bin/echo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD), dynamica > lly linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > sat64% file /usr/local/bin/waveplay > /usr/local/bin/waveplay: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (Free > BSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > sat64% file /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/ossplay > /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/ossplay: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version > 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > sat64% /usr/local/bin/file /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/ossplay > /usr/local/lib/oss/bin/ossplay: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version > 1 (FreeBSD), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped > > > Maybe you're right. I never go to single-user when > upgrading. But then, I'm the only user and there are > not many processes. I'm not gonna worry anyway, > hope it's not a rootkit :-) I have a 5.4 system, /do/ go into single user when upgrading, and file does /not/ report FreeBSD version. I get the same output you do. It would be nice to know why this works on some systems and not on others. Micah