Thanks to both of you, Patrick and Shaleh for your help. Since the strace
didn't show the problem, I've just now reinstalled the fileutils package,
and now chmod seems to be working fine.
Chris
Chris Kaltwasser[EMAIL PR
On 08-Feb-99, Chris Kaltwasser took time to write :
> So now I'm wondering, how should I proceed in trying to fix this problem?
first do an strace
that is type
strace chmod
and then you will see exactly at what point it's failing and maybe why.
if you think it's important, send that output he
Please do the followinf and see if you notice anything odd
a) ldd /bin/chmod
b) strace -o chmod.trace
Look in the file chmod.trace and it will list all the function calls the
program uses, and will show where it sigsegv's.
Please be kind to me if I'm just being dumb in some way.
I've got a machine running Debian 2.0 (hamm, I guess) with no problems
except one I've just run into this morning. It seems that every time I try
to chmod a file, regardless of the file, original mode, or user (root or
otherwise) it fails w
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