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Date:      Sat, 21 Dec 2002 22:41:38 +0100
From:      Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: /bin/chown linked to /bin/echo?
Message-ID:  <m3d6nvyrql.fsf@merlin.emma.line.org>
In-Reply-To: <20021221062053.GA12565@rot13.obsecurity.org> (Kris Kennaway's message of "Fri, 20 Dec 2002 22:20:54 -0800")
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20021220231027.02d06908@magpie.zpfe.com> <20021221062053.GA12565@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> 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

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