Re: adduser in hamm dumps core !
> >> Why do I have two distinct copies of perl?
> >
> >i found this too and diffed it - no difference at all, so
> >i don't bother very much.
> >
>
> They are the same file, they are just hard-linked to each other. If
> you do ls-l on either of them, you'll see that one of the columns,
> which is normally 1, will be 2 or more, meaning that 2 or more
> filenames are hardlinked to the same file...
They should be hard linked, but as the original poster pointed out, they
aren't:
bhmit1@hobbes(p2):bhmit1$ ls -li /usr/bin/perl*
4267 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492172 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perl
4167 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 492172 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perl5.00404
4554 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 28612 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perlbug
4555 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 12675 Jan 25 22:14 /usr/bin/perldoc
bhmit1@hobbes(p2):bhmit1$ diff /usr/bin/perl /usr/bin/perl5.00404
bhmit1@hobbes(p2):bhmit1$ dpkg -l perl
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge
| Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed
|/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-===============-==============-============================================
ii perl 5.004.04-4 Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report
Sorry for the long lines,
Brandon
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