Dear Bob,
Thank you for your answers.
Bob Proulx wrote:
John B. Brown wrote:
Thank you for that reminder of my mortality.
:-)
Bob Proulx wrote:
Also, /usr/bin/bash is not a normal location for bash. Normally bash
would reside in /bin/bash . Perhaps you also have one there?
ls -ld /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/bash
I suggested looking at /usr/local/bin/bash since that is another
typical location.
(23):% ls -ld /usr/bin/bash /bin/bash /usr/local/bash
/bin/ls: cannot access /usr/local/bash: No such file or directory
It is probably not an issue here but you looked at /usr/local/bash
instead of where I suggested. It didn't exist. I doubt the
/usr/local/bin/bash exists either. But I wanted to note that these
were different paths.
Actually, nothing exists in /usr/local/bin except space.
Personally, the alternative to growing old and senile is
not acceptable.
-rwsrwsr-x 1 root root 604040 2007-09-21 16:16 /bin/bash*
How did that happen? Fix that immediately, if not sooner.
chmod a=rx,u+w /bin/bash
Then also go check other files in your bin directory to make sure you
didn't have an errant command set them all.
That setuid/setgid to root was an interim stop-gap prior to
asking for help; it is not usual.
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2037410 2008-01-30 05:35 /usr/bin/bash*
That looks okay. But it doesn't match your previous error message.
I assume you were continuing to make changes after your last message
because this one shouldn't have given a permission denied one. I
expected to see that this wasn't executable at all.
Argh! I guess I get to REMOVE the bash I installed in
error in that piece of junk location.
So much for compiling by myself.
I must remember to set the proper --prefix in the configure
process; dueling bashes just doesn't make it.
Careful when compiling and upgrading systems in place. A breakage can
break your entire system to the point that you might not be able to
use it to fix itself. Make sure you have a rescue process available.
Bob
I have rm'd all the symlinks to /bin/bash. I have remade
all of them, including a symlink to /usr/bin/bash.
If that doesn't finally fix this mess then there is no
longer going to be a /usr/bin/bash, binary or link.
If this doesn't fill the bill I'll do a find and egrep for
2008 and bash. That will then give me a list of the stuff I
need to remove from that tired compile from this past January.
Shalom,
John B. Brown.
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