Will Maier wrote:
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 06:51:21AM -0700, Micah wrote:
I have a 5.4 system, /do/ go into single user when upgrading, and
file does /not/ report FreeBSD version. I get the same output you
do. It would be nice to know why this works on some systems and
not on others.
Consider diff'ing the /usr/share/misc/magic file from a system that
works and a system that doesn't work. I'd expect the difference to
be evident there.
It works find on all my machines, though.
Didn't think to check this until /after/ I started to make lunch. :) I
copied ethereal from the working machine to the non-working machine.
Using file on the copied ethereal gives me:
trisha% file ethereal
ethereal: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
for FreeBSD 5.4, dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
Conversly coping ethereal from the broken machine to the working machine
I get:
alexis% file ethereal
ethereal: ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (FreeBSD),
dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
In other words, it's not file that broken, but /every/ executable on the
broken machine is broken. Now why would that be? A compiler flag or
something?
Later,
Micah
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