Your issue is basically this? pedicular~;ls -lai /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/xargs/ total 26 309805 drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Dec 12 12:24 . 238112 drwxr-xr-x 211 root wheel 6656 Dec 12 11:19 .. 310095 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 884 Dec 12 11:58 .depend 310504 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 8425 Dec 12 12:24 xargs 310505 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 2769 Dec 12 12:24 xargs.1.gz 310503 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 4544 Dec 12 12:24 xargs.o pedicular~;ls -lai /usr/bin/xargs 8627 -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 6324 Dec 12 12:53 /usr/bin/xargs
I *believe* that the install strips the binaries before installing them. That would explain the size difference. On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 01:45:13PM -0500, Sam Drinkard wrote: > Something is rather odd here, and I'm at a loss to explain it. Checking > dates does in fact show a Dec 17th datestamp, but comparing the /usr/bin > executables against /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin executables shows they are > different in size, but datestamps are the same, Dec 17. This whole > thing started with a funny netstat output. Looking at file sizes, I see > in /usr/bin, netstat is: > > -r-xr-sr-x 1 root kmem 91008 Dec 17 13:06 /usr/bin/netstat > > and in /usr/obj/usr/src/usr.bin/netstat: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 99182 Dec 17 12:24 netstat > > > Knowing it has not been installed, but it does give proper output. A > view of the script of the install does not show any problems... > > More than baffled now... > > > Sam -- Michael Lucas [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] my FreeBSD column: http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/q/Big_Scary_Daemons http://www.blackhelicopters.org/~mwlucas/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
