On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Tapas Mishra <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Paul-Ovidiu Dascalu > <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Paul >> /usr/bin/firefox is not an executable file to begin with. > Yes this thing I got in my search also it is not an executable.
Actually, it is an executable, but not the actual firefox binary one would expect. Instead it is a symbolic link to a wrapper script which executes the first line of the file /bin/sh(a link to dash in Ubuntu) which later calls the firefox binary executable. Yeah talk about bad luck in picking a program to mess with. -- John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
