Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:02:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Johnny F. Morris" <johnny@tds.color-laser.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Date: error 14 Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9905251202030.13061-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <199905242211.RAA22755@venus.hiline.net>
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On Mon, 24 May 1999, Johnny F. Morris wrote: > I installed Xwindows on friday and noticed on monday that when I typed > #date I was getting "Permission Denied" > > When I examined the date binary I saw it was modified on friday about the > same time > I had done the install of XFree86.....and the permissions on date were > -rw------- 1 root bin 81408 May 21 16:53 date > > Also the date binary was no longer an executable....there was no * next to it. > > So i did a > #chmod +x date > and changed the permissions to match all the others in /bin > -r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 81408 May 21 16:53 date > > BUT now when I do a > #date > I just get... > > date: error 14 According to intro(2): 14 EFAULT Bad address. The system detected an invalid address in attempt- ing to use an argument of a call. I would run an mtree checksum check of your binaries -- you may have been broken into. That or date just plain corrupted itself. You didn't touch it on May 21 16:53, did you? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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