Re: [cobalt-users] Telnet - Access Denied Message

[Alfredo <alfredo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>  > looks like a binary ?  pico shure choked on it (raq3)
> Nooooooo...can't be so....there's something else going on clearly.
> This is what happens (on a qube 2 but there's NO difference, a perl file
> is a perl file....ASCII text throughout!!

This IS interesting!

On the Raq3i, /bin/badsh is a binary and, forgive my ignorance, I'm 
really surprised to see it's a PERL file on the  Qube. The files in 
the bin directory are binaries -- that's the way it's "supposed to 
be" (famous last words) and I always thought it was that way on all 
systems.

The only exceptions I've seen on the Raq (and I'm not a biblical 
source here) are in usr/bin and those are PERL files for mysql 
commands (access, dump, etc.) installed through a "package" 
installation. The mysql main programs are binaries but I guess they 
install the PERL command scripts there for ease or simplicity.

Obviously, they broke "the rule" with badsh on the Qube but I can't 
understand why they'd handle that with PERL. Can't see an advantage 
-- in fact, it would probably slow things down by a second or two, no?

Well...I just learned something new.

Alfredo
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