Hey, I perfectly understand if not. But do you have the sources that were used to build those binaries?
replyThe oldest version on the GNU ftp server is fileutils-3.13 [1]. I vaguely remember having some links to older versions, probably somewhere in my archived mail. But I don't remember if it was fileutils-3.9 or earlier.
I co-maintain GNU coreutils, so I am interested in reading them. If you have them, you can email me privately or on the public mailing list. Both are listed on the homepage [2].
[1] https://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/fileutils/ [2] https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
You can find ancient distros on archive.org and some of those have src.rpm's
Slackware also had a source dvd with iirc regular tarballs.
replyInteresting, thanks for the pointers!
replyAlso, Debian has archives of old releases. You might want to try your luck there.
replyYou should have run that command as the `nobody` user.
replyBut nobody doesn't have a valid shell.
replyNothing you can't fix if you have root. :)
replyUse toor for good measure.
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