From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 28 10:14:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from la-mail3.digilink.net (la3.digilink.net [205.147.0.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0EB615719 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:14:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davebullock@dwindledistribution.com) Received: from davebullock@dwindledistribution.com (mach4.worldind.com [205.147.16.69]) by la-mail3.digilink.net (8.9.0/8.9.0) with SMTP id KAA21765 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:14:29 -0700 (PDT) From: davebullock@dwindledistribution.com Received: from ccMail by mailhost.worldind.com (ccMail Link to SMTP R8.20.00.25) id AA925319517; Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:12:00 -0800 Message-Id: <9904289253.AA925319517@mailhost.worldind.com> X-Mailer: ccMail Link to SMTP R8.20.00.25 Date: Wed, 28 Apr 1999 10:20:46 -0800 To: Subject: chmod to death! MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: "cc:Mail Note Part" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I really blew it... I did 'chmod -R 4755 /' Now I can't log in. I have tried doing upgrade and install and neither have worked. When I try to use a holographic shell it just says 'Error ( expected' and when I put an open parenthesis in front of my command it gives me a '>' and then when I enter commands on that line nothing happens all I can do is 'Ctl-C' out of it. What can I do to save my system or do I have to newfs? Your help will be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. A. David Bullock To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message