Re: Found This In /usr - @LongLink

[James A. Coulter]

Eric F Crist wrote:
James,
I'm not trying to be rude, but a 30 second search through Google results 
for @LongLink turned up the following entry (on the first results page):

Eric,
You are correct and I did exactly that 30 seconds after hitting on the 
send button on that e-mail.

Sorry - I'm a newbie, *nix is still a very strange and wonderous 
creature to me, and sometimes in my excitement I forget my mailing list 
ettiquette.

To all the other newbies out there: Google and the FreeBSD handbook are 
our best friends.

Jim
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Found This In /usr - @LongLink

[James A. Coulter]

I found this in /usr on two FBSD 4.11 boxen:

--   1 root  wheel   105 Dec 31  1969 @LongLink
One box is my firewall/router/gateway attached to a cable modem and the 
other is behind the firewall.

The 1969 timestamp and lack of file attributes is making the small hair 
on the back of my neck standup.

Is this normal?  If so, what the heck is it?
Or have I been rooted?
Thanks!
Jim
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Re: Found This In /usr - @LongLink

[Eric F Crist]

On Mar 3, 2005, at 8:08 PM, James A. Coulter wrote:
I found this in /usr on two FBSD 4.11 boxen:

--   1 root  wheel   105 Dec 31  1969 @LongLink
One box is my firewall/router/gateway attached to a cable modem and 
the other is behind the firewall.

The 1969 timestamp and lack of file attributes is making the small 
hair on the back of my neck standup.

Is this normal?  If so, what the heck is it?
Or have I been rooted?
Thanks!
Jim
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James A. Coulter
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James,
I'm not trying to be rude, but a 30 second search through Google 
results for @LongLink turned up the following entry (on the first 
results page):

Quote from 
http://www-unix.globus.org/mail_archive/discuss/2002/10/msg00352.html:

I learned that @LongLink is a GNU tar's way to handle long path
names. Apparently GNU tar now has to be used to untar some packages.
I'd like to suggest that the configuration script check and make sure
it gets the GNU tar, the same way it makes sure it gets Perl 5-005 or
higher.

Now that I've installed the GNU tar on my system, what files do I
need to modify to invoke it, not the vendor tar, in order to continue
building for the information services. I'd rather not to start over
if I could help it.

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