John B. Brown wrote: > Thank you for that reminder of my mortality.
:-) > Bob Proulx wrote: > >Also, /usr/bin/bash is not a normal location for bash. Normally bash > >would reside in /bin/bash . Perhaps you also have one there? > > > > ls -ld /bin/bash /usr/local/bin/bash I suggested looking at /usr/local/bin/bash since that is another typical location. > (23):% ls -ld /usr/bin/bash /bin/bash /usr/local/bash > /bin/ls: cannot access /usr/local/bash: No such file or directory It is probably not an issue here but you looked at /usr/local/bash instead of where I suggested. It didn't exist. I doubt the /usr/local/bin/bash exists either. But I wanted to note that these were different paths. > -rwsrwsr-x 1 root root 604040 2007-09-21 16:16 /bin/bash* How did that happen? Fix that immediately, if not sooner. chmod a=rx,u+w /bin/bash Then also go check other files in your bin directory to make sure you didn't have an errant command set them all. > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 2037410 2008-01-30 05:35 /usr/bin/bash* That looks okay. But it doesn't match your previous error message. I assume you were continuing to make changes after your last message because this one shouldn't have given a permission denied one. I expected to see that this wasn't executable at all. > Argh! I guess I get to REMOVE the bash I installed in > error in that piece of junk location. > > So much for compiling by myself. > > I must remember to set the proper --prefix in the configure > process; dueling bashes just doesn't make it. Careful when compiling and upgrading systems in place. A breakage can break your entire system to the point that you might not be able to use it to fix itself. Make sure you have a rescue process available. Bob