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Re: Another Dumb question
Authored by: derrickbass on Nov 01, '04 09:00:45PM

No, you are not infected. (Well, probably not. There might be variants of Opener that manifest themselves differently. So far, however, we only know of the one.)

The difference depends on which shell you are using. The shell is decided upon when your account is created and only changes after that if you do so explicitly.

Before Panther, the default shell was "tcsh". If your account was created under Jaguar or earlier then your shell is tcsh, even if you have subsequently upgraded to Panther. Under Panther, the default shell is "bash" for newly created accounts.

Anyway, what the command is doing is checking whether the file ".info" exists in the Public directory of any user. If it exists in one of your user directories, it means you have "Opener". If it does not exist, then you get an error message (which is good; it means you probably don't have Opener). However, bash and tcsh appear to give different error messages.



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