From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 25 12: 3: 3 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5A721583F for ; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:02:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA18437; Tue, 25 May 1999 12:02:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 25 May 1999 12:02:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: "Johnny F. Morris" Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Date: error 14 In-Reply-To: <199905242211.RAA22755@venus.hiline.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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