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Date:      Fri, 3 May 2002 14:54:43 +0200
From:      Hanspeter Roth <hanspeter_roth@hotmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Kernel compile fails 4.5R
Message-ID:  <20020503145443.B12026@bsag.ch>
In-Reply-To: <02050217570103.04429@fcoffice.ptfd.org>; from ptfd9100@beanstalk.net on Thu, May 02, 2002 at 05:57:01PM -0400
References:  <02050211025001.04136@fcoffice.ptfd.org> <02050215351700.04429@fcoffice.ptfd.org> <20020502201301.9467B37B449@hub.freebsd.org> <02050217570103.04429@fcoffice.ptfd.org>

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  On May 02 at 17:57, Michael W.Holdeman spoke:

> OK changed tyhe /sbin/dmersg to executable by root. I noticed alot of other 
> files are not in /sbin. I wonder if this is my problem. I'll post the dmesg 

Not every program that's needed to build a new kernel is located
in /sbin. Some are in /usr/bin (gcc, make).
Just dmesg is located in /sbin. Sometimes unprivileged users don't
include /sbin and /usr/sbin in their PATH. Then they have to
explicitly call these commands with their directory prefixed.
(/sbin/dmesg, /sbin/ping)

> as soon as I figure out how to send dmesg to a text file so I can get it and 
> mail it.

/sbin/dmesg > /tmp/dmesg.txt

> however the only thing I see there that looks out of the ordinary is some 
> time-outs on ata1, which is only the cdrom drive.

OK, timeouts on the cdrom drive are probably not the problem.
It doesn't mean that you will find the problem in `dmesg` or
/var/log/messages. Just maybe.

> I just wonder how the permissions on this machine could have gotten dorked?

Not easy to guess. Have they really been changed?
Maybe somebody has sniffed the root password on your network?
Are you working on the console or do you connect by some encrypted
means? (openssh, ipsec)

-Hanspeter

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