[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 at gmail.com>:
> This is a message from ILUG-Trivandrum . Anybody know what is going on ?
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kurian John <dtlabz at gmail.com>
> Date: 2008/11/28
> Subject: [ilug-tvm] ls -h not working on EL5 / CentOS 5
> To: ilug-tvm at 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 at vasant ~]# ls -h
> ls: invalid option -- h
> Try `ls --help' for more information.
>
> [root at 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 at vasant ~]# ls --version
> ls - GNU fileutils-3.13
> [root at 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 outdated fileutils package.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-with-ls-command.-686547/
>
> Has anybody here experienced any similar problems? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
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