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
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