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
>
> -- 
> James A. Coulter
> jacoulter at jacoulter.net
> http://jacoulter.net

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.
 >
 >--
 >Wendy Lin
 >-------------
 >IT Research Computing Services
 >af5 at taiyang.cc.purdue.edu
 >http://www-rcd.cc.purdue.edu/~af5/


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