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Re: /bin/chown linked to /bin/echo?



Kris Kennaway <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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