Found This In /usr - @LongLink
Eric F Crist
ecrist at secure-computing.net
Thu Mar 3 18:35:57 PST 2005
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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Eric F Crist "I am so smart, S.M.R.T!"
Secure Computing Networks -Homer J Simpson
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