Re: What is "/etc/-src" ?

[Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>]

Thus spake Jimmy Lu:
> Hello all,
> 
> There is a binary file in my /etc directory named "/etc/-src".  I am not
> sure what
> this file for.  I am worried it might be some kind of hacked file.  Does
> anyone
> have information about this file and how to deal with it?
> 
> 1 -rw-r--r--   1  root   root   24 Mar 25 17:30  -src

While it's _possible_ that it's something subversive, in my experience,
when you find files in odd places, which begin with - or --, they're
usually the result of some program mis-interpreting command-line
arguments, and creating a file called "-src" instead of using an option
called "-src"


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Nathan Poznick <poznick@conwaycorp.net>

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