what the heck is # ls -li /usr/\@LongLink 3 ---------- 1 root wheel 111 Jan 1 1970 /usr/@LongLink randy
what does 'file' tell you? On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:51:20PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:> what the heck is > > # ls -li /usr/\@LongLink > 3 ---------- 1 root wheel 111 Jan 1 1970 /usr/@LongLink > > randy > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-security@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-security > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-security-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"-------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/attachments/20030907/7f22001f/attachment.bin
How about chown asafenonrootuserid ?LongLink
su asafenonrootuserid
cat ?LongLink | strings
---Mike
At 12:51 PM 07/09/2003 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:>what the heck is
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># ls -li /usr/\@LongLink
>3 ---------- 1 root wheel 111 Jan 1 1970 /usr/@LongLink
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On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:51:20PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:> what the heck is > > # ls -li /usr/\@LongLink > 3 ---------- 1 root wheel 111 Jan 1 1970 /usr/@LongLink >The result of unpacking a tar archive made with GNU tar, but using a different tar implementation, perhaps? GNU tar has a built-in bit of trickery to get round the limitation of 100 character path names in tar archives that uses such names as placeholders, until it can replace the 'long link' with the actual required file name. Cheers, Matthew -- Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/attachments/20030907/70eb4a7b/attachment.bin
On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Randy Bush wrote:> what the heck is > > # ls -li /usr/\@LongLink > 3 ---------- 1 root wheel 111 Jan 1 1970 /usr/@LongLinkI've seen this file on every 4.8 box I have installed from cdrom. While it seemed odd, I just wrote it off to a minor mistake in the dist and deleted it promptly due to the Annoyance Factor(tm). -tbaur
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 12:51:20PM -0700, Randy Bush wrote:> what the heck is > > # ls -li /usr/\@LongLink > 3 ---------- 1 root wheel 111 Jan 1 1970 /usr/@LongLinkI have no idea what it is, but it was easy enough to use Google to find out: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=11224+0+archive/2002/freebsd-qa/20020127.freebsd-qa Chris