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Date:      Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:20:54 -0800
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Steve Peterson <stevep-hv@zpfe.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /bin/chown linked to /bin/echo?
Message-ID:  <20021221062053.GA12565@rot13.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.0.20021220231027.02d06908@magpie.zpfe.com>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20021220231027.02d06908@magpie.zpfe.com>

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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=
=20
> 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.

> Any reason why I shouldn't just blow the link away?

No.

Kris


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