re: Problem with "chown"

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

> > I've found that I have two files on with same name
> > on several of my systems:
> > 
> > 
> > -r-xr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  9256 Feb  2 16:54 /usr/sbin/chown
> > MD5 (/usr/sbin/chown) = fce92081f7907b04f0063e2f17f7f4e6
> >   9256  Feb  2  16:54  /usr/sbin/chown
> > above seems to work as expected
> > 
> > 
> > -r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  9193 May 23 06:02 /sbin/chown
> > MD5 (/sbin/chown) = bd76dbd35bd23c59dbf224c831387a86
> >   9193  May 23  06:02  /sbin/chown
> > this gives an error
> > /sbin/chown: Undefined PLT symbol "_libc_init" (symnum =17)
> > 
> > 
> > I've not yet tracked down where the broken version 
> > comes from, cdrom or build from source or other.
> > 
> > 
> > Anyone else seen this?
> 
> you've got netbsd-5 and netbsd-6 files installed together.
> since /sbin/init is the newer one, i'm going to assume you

of course, i mean /sbin/chown here.

> installed netbsd-6 and then netbsd-6, and that's how it got
> into this state.

the other critical piece of info i didn't make explicit was
that chown moved to /sbin in netbsd-6, it is only a symlink
in /usr/sbin/chown now.

> _libc_init is a symbol needed by newer programs in netbsd,
> and provided by the libc.so in netbsd-6.


.mrg.