Philip Guenther wrote:
Hmm, I don't see that error message in the stock /bin/cp or /bin/rm. Are you running your own version of them or have shell script wrappers for them or something? What's the output of "which cp rm"?
Is it maybe builtin to ksh? Besides, the error message is probably from a runtime lib, right?
Anway: $ echo $SHELL /bin/ksh $ which rm /bin/rm $ ls -l ccreply.rex -rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4674 Oct 3 12:11 ccreply.rex $ whoami jax $ rm ccreply.rex override rwxr-xr-x root/wheel for ccreply.rex? y rm: ccreply.rex: Invalid character in program $ uname -a OpenBSD elephant.jaxrcfb 4.3 4.3#0 i386 -- Jack J. Woehr # "Self-delusion is http://www.well.com/~jax # half the battle!" http://www.softwoehr.com # - Zippy the Pinhead