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Re: Strange /usr/bin file



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On 02/11/08 09:33, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:19:49 -0500
> "Douglas A. Tutty" <dtutty@porchlight.ca> wrote:
> 
>> This should be in an FAQ somewhere.  I see it about once a year.
>> Presumably the OP has just started in Lenny or he would have seen it
>> in Etch, Sarge, Woody, Potato...  Probably back to either 4.3 BSD or
>> the origional UNIX.
> 
> I guess it just depends on whether you need to use it or not.  I've
> been using Linux of various flavours for about seven years and never
> even noticed this command before this post! :o)

I first noticed it back in the Mandrake 7.0 days.  Year 2002, or
maybe 2001.  Freaked me out, too.

> Ah well...
> 
> /me wonders just how much more he has to learn before he thinks that he
> knows a reasonable amount about Linux...

Very few people are true, complete *ix gurus anymore...


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Ron Johnson, Jr.
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