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Re: Child Exited 127 Error



On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 09:31:59AM +0900, Henry Nelson wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:13:24PM -0700, Bill wrote:
> > Michael:
> > 
> > Are you suggesting that my sendmail file should have similar
> > permissions to your?  I see there is a difference:
> 
> "Permissions" are same.  "Ownership"?  Pretty much OS dependent,
> AFAIK.  Take a look at executable binaries bundled with your OS.  That
> "sendmail" should probably have the same permissions and ownership as
> they do.
> 
> > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root  wheel 249056 Jan 14 00:25 sendmail*
> 
> I would be interested in knowing what that trailing "*" is for. :)

When you have ls aliased to "ls -F", a * is appended to the filename of
executable files.

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