Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2000 21:10:07 +0100 From: "James A Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: chmod command doesn't work was: chmod: invalid file mode: 04711 Message-ID: <019801bf5f94$864e9a40$8208a8c0@iqunlimited.net> References: <006401bf5f72$8fac2fc0$d0353018@evstiouninadelphia.net.pit.adelphia.net> <3880C71C.422A1ED9@3-cities.com>
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Thanks to all who helped. Problem solved - er, well, over. On Kent's advice I created a new directory called zonk, which I hoped the kernel wouldn't object to, and, to my surprise, could chmod. I can chmod anything now. The only explanation I have is that, after running ktrace, I did a 'cat ktrace.out' to see what was in there. It was, of course a binary and totally screwed up my machine to the extent that a shutdown couldn't fix it. So I did a cold boot. SSH2 has now compiled without a murmur. Sorry everyone. mvh/regards James > It wouldn't surprise me if "test" was being replaced with "[". I would > use a better name than "test", which has a special meaning to the > shell. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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