Re: [fedora-india] Fwd: [ilug-tvm] ls -h not working on EL5 / CentOS 5

[Manilal K M]

I have a CentOS-5 desktop and the command works fine. It has GNU
Coreutils 5.97.


2008/11/29 ashik salahudeen <aashiks(a)gmail.com&gt;:
>  This is a message from ILUG-Trivandrum . Anybody know what is going
> on ?
>
>
>  ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>  From: Kurian John <dtlabz(a)gmail.com&gt;
>  Date: 2008/11/28
>  Subject: [ilug-tvm] ls -h not working on EL5 / CentOS 5
>  To: ilug-tvm(a)googlegroups.com
>
>
>  Hey everyone,
>
>  One of my friends is facing a serious problem in Redhat Enterprise
>  Linux 5 and CentOS 5. When he tries to list files in a directory with
>  the ls command, he gets an error like this:
>
>  [root@vasant ~]# ls -h
>  ls: invalid option -- h
>  Try `ls --help' for more information.
>
>  [root@vasant ~]# ll -h
>  ls: invalid option -- h
>  Try `ls --help' for more information.
>
>  The ls command was working fine when he first installed both OSs. When
>  he noticed this issue, he checked the version of ls, and got this:
>
>  [root@vasant ~]# ls --version
>  ls - GNU fileutils-3.13
>  [root@vasant ~]#
>
>  This is very strange, because the latest version of GNU fileutils was
>  released around 2003, and it was merged into GNU coreutils by 2003.
>  So, it seems that somehow his coreutils package was replaced by an
>  outdated fileutils package.
>
>  He asked this question on LinuxQuestions.org and someone suggested to
>  check for rootkits (See link below).
>
>
> http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-newbie-8/facing-a-problem-w...
>
>  Has anybody here experienced any similar problems? Any help would be
>  greatly appreciated.
>
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