On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 02:39:16PM -0600, Jack Woehr wrote:

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> 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:

Try `type rm` (is it not an alias to /usr/local/bin/gnu-rm or

something like that ?) and `strings $(which rm)` (does the binary

contain this 'Invalid character in program' string ?).
Also compare the md5 sum of your /bin/rm with the sum from a clean

install of 4.3 (assuming this is a -RELEASE version you're running).
>    $ echo $SHELL

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>    /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

I, for one, have never seen that error before ;)
Cheers,
Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd
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