Re: Strange file names
On Mon, Nov 15, 1999 at 07:56:29PM -0800, aphro wrote
> On Tue, 16 Nov 1999, Oki DZ wrote:
>
> litban >I have some strange files. Do they have to exist in /usr/bin?
>
> uhoh!!
>
> litban >-rwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20720 Dec 24 1998 [
>
> dont know what that is ..but i have it too, i cant get dpkg to identify it
> ..
>
This is a conventional alias for 'test'. As in,
$ if [ -e /usr/bin/[ ] ; \
then echo [ is present in /usr/bin; \
else \
echo [ is missing - your system is a little hosed, dude. ;\
fi
>[snip]
>
> never know..binaries can always be replaced ....once when i got cracked
> the guy stuck a password sniffer in /dev (forgot the name of the
> sniffer) and it was logging all the POP3 passwords..
>
> litban >Or am I just being paranoid?
>
> you can never be too paranoid.
>
Oh, I don't know about that...
John P.
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john@huiac.apana.org.au
"Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
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