Date: Sun, 2 Feb 1997 12:13:20 +0100 (MET) From: grog@lemis.de To: tshansen@ucsd.edu (Todd Hansen) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Re: Can't send local mail (or use bash) after recompiling kernel Message-ID: <199702021113.MAA11222@freebie.lemis.de> In-Reply-To: <32F320E7.6A3@ucsd.edu> from Todd Hansen at "Feb 1, 97 02:54:40 am"
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Todd Hansen writes: > I was fooling with the kernel configuration. > ... > And recompiled. I am using 2.1.6 #0. Now, I rebooted and everything > seems to be working fine. Then I tried to send mail to my friend (local > account) and it gave me an error that it could not execute mail.local. I > have checked the file it listed (directory too) and it has the correct > priviliges as a matter of fact, anybody can execute it. > > Anyway, I freaked out, recompiled the old (prechanges old kernel) and it > rebooted with the same problems. > > As it turns out, (I just figured this out, halfway through this e-mail) > is that nobody can execute anything unless they are in group 0 (wheel). > I am in group wheel so I didn't notice, but my friends noticed when they > couldn't execute there login shells. > All of the priviliges seem right and everthing seems to be working. Any > suggestions. I just recompiled the kernel. > > I can start over with a generic kernel, but not until I get a chance to > visit my computer screen as I have to run a boot config for it to even > boot. There's no reason to believe that this problem relates to the kernel, so installing another kernel will probably not help much. I'd guess that you have a directory permission problem. Check these: $ ls -ld /usr/bin /bin /usr/libexec drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 1024 Feb 1 15:41 /bin drwxr-xr-x 2 bin bin 6144 Feb 1 15:53 /usr/bin drwxr-xr-x 5 bin bin 1024 Feb 1 15:53 /usr/libexec > Anyway, I am sort of mad becuase I don't want to have to reinstall > freebsd again. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide. Reinstalling a complete operating system is overkill for just about any problem you might have. Greg
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