Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 06:27:59 GMT From: DJ <dogzilla@temporaryinbox.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: bin/117834: chown missing from 5.5 build, ran from downloaded cds. Message-ID: <200711050627.lA56Rxnd005963@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200711050630.lA56U19X009521@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 117834 >Category: bin >Synopsis: chown missing from 5.5 build, ran from downloaded cds. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Nov 05 06:30:01 UTC 2007 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: DJ >Release: 5.5 >Organization: OAZ computing >Environment: FreeBSD raptor.gateway.2wire.net 5.5-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.5-RELEASE #0: Tue May 23 14:58:27 UTC 2006 root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: When trying to install from ports or use "chown" to change ownership, machine reports that it cannot find command "chown". example from attempted transmission install: [dexue@raptor /usr/ports/net-p2p/transmission % sudo make install ===> Vulnerability check disabled, database not found ===> Extracting for transmission-0.5 => MD5 Checksum OK for Transmission-0.5.tar.gz. => SHA256 Checksum OK for Transmission-0.5.tar.gz. /usr/sbin/chown: not found *** Error code 127 Stop in /usr/ports/net-p2p/transmission. When using whereis to find chown following is output: [dexue@raptor /tmp % whereis -f chown chown: /usr/share/man/man8/chown.8.gz >How-To-Repeat: Attempt to install programs or attempt to change ownership on files/dirs >Fix: Install chown to /usr/sbin. Can you supply this utility to me or tell me how to get and how to install. I don't understand why this did not install. Machine works fine except for this which stops nearly all installations and any ownership changes. I can't install any ports or upgrade any applications. Please help. Thanks, DJ >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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