Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:58:27 -0700 From: Micah <micahjon@ywave.com> To: jdow <jdow@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, vveitas@erc.lt Subject: Re: /bin/cat: Permission denied Message-ID: <44A082B3.4060804@ywave.com> In-Reply-To: <029701c69981$e501f720$0225a8c0@Wednesday> References: <!&!AAAAAAAAAAAYAAAAAAAAAErnaONQDa9OqanqjLiRsw3CgAAAEAAAAAG7lOk6/bRNq%2B4AcAZnGGkBAAAAAA==@erc.lt> <029701c69981$e501f720$0225a8c0@Wednesday>
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jdow wrote: > From: "Viktoras Veitas" <vveitas@erc.lt> > >> Hello. >> >> I suddenly cannot run "cat" command as /bin/cat file appears to be >> without >> execute permissions (all other files in /bin directory are with them) >> and I >> get "/bin/cat: Permission denied" error. >> >> >> >> I had a misfortune to "chmod 555 /bin/cat", then my machine panicked >> (when >> trying to run "cat") and was not able to boot until I changed the >> /bin/cat >> permissions back to read-only. Anyway the system running again but I >> cannot >> install almost any port that uses cat in ./configure script. >> >> >> >> I am running FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE-p16 on Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz >> (2992.52-MHz 686-class CPU), with two 200GB SATA disks and RAID1 geom >> mirror. >> >> >> >> Output of dmesg is attached as file. >> >> >> >> Question#1: How can I get rid of this problem and repair my cat file >> to be >> able to install new ports again? >> >> Question#2: Why did this happen? I mean everything worked fine for a >> year or >> more until I decided to use hylafax on my machine and found that it >> cannot >> do documet conversion. > > Maybe some kind soul you trust will send you a copy of the 5.4 cat > command. I'd suspect you redirected something to /bin/cat by mistake. > > {^_^} Joanne Cat for i386 5.4 release can also be gotten from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/i386/5.4-RELEASE/base/base.aa just use tar to extract it. HTH, Micah
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