Philip Guenther wrote:
Perhaps, but /bin/rm and /bin/cp are staticly linked, so the message
would appear in the binary in some form.
strings /bin /rm doesn't show that string.
Anway:
$ echo $SHELL
/bin/ksh
$ which rm
/bin/rm
$ ls -l ccreply.rex
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 4674 Oct 3 12:11 ccreply.rex
I presume your current directory is owned by root and not writable by you.
Yes.
Since you're using ksh, try "whence -v cp rm".
$ whence -v rm cp
rm is a tracked alias for /bin/rm
cp is a tracked alias for /bin/cp
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