nologin size

Simon simon at optinet.com
Wed Feb 15 20:05:45 UTC 2012


Haven't checked into it, but quick guess static vs dynamic, stripped vs not stripped,
check those first. You have likely compiled dynamic nologin.

-Simon

On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:28:54 -0500, Ansar Mohammed wrote:

>Hello all,
>I am trying to build a minimal size FreeBSD 9 installation and I
>noticed that the size of nologin is almost 200k.
>I built FreeBSD from source so I checked the distribution, and it's also 200k.
>So I went back to the source and just compiled nologin.c and it came up to 5k.

>Can anyone explain why this executable is so large?
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