From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 21 14:15:33 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5697937B401 for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:15:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (krusty.dt.e-technik.Uni-Dortmund.DE [129.217.163.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8E0A43EDA for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 14:15:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from matthias.andree@gmx.de) Received: from m2a2.dyndns.org (krusty.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de [129.217.163.1]) by mail.dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BD4A381A for ; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:41:40 +0100 (CET) Received: by merlin.emma.line.org (Postfix, from userid 500) id 11356739D9; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:41:38 +0100 (CET) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /bin/chown linked to /bin/echo? References: <5.2.0.9.0.20021220231027.02d06908@magpie.zpfe.com> <20021221062053.GA12565@rot13.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20021221062053.GA12565@rot13.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:20:54 -0800") From: Matthias Andree Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:41:38 +0100 Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.2 (i586-suse-linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kris Kennaway 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