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From: brian@anorak.coverform.lan (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Unknown root shell
Date: 23 Oct 1996 11:59:41 +0100
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In article <54inj1$odg@dns.bwc.org>,
armand@saturn.bwc.org (Arman Danesh) writes:
: I'm having some wierdness on a FreeBSD system. The scenario is this: I can
: log in as a regular user. But when I issue an "su" command I get the
: message:
:
: su: /bin/csh : No such file or directory
:
: When I log in directly as root, I get the message:
:
: login: /bin/csh : Permission denied
:
: and I am returned to the login prompt. The thing is, /bin/csh exists and
: it's permissions are 555 and it's owned by bin. How do I solve this one?
Does "file /bin/csh" say it's an executable ? What happens when you
run it from the command line ?
If you have /usr/src installed, you could try rebuilding it.
--
Brian <brian@awfulhak.demon.co.uk>
<http://www.awfulhak.demon.co.uk/>
Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....
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