Re: #! /bin/sh bash problem

[John B. Brown]

Dear Bob,

        Thank you for your answers.

Bob Proulx wrote:
> 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.

        Actually, nothing exists in /usr/local/bin except space.

	Personally, the alternative to growing old and senile is 
not acceptable.

> > -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.

	That setuid/setgid to root was an interim stop-gap prior to 
asking for help; it is not usual.

> > -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

	I have rm'd all the symlinks to /bin/bash. I have remade 
all of them, including a symlink to /usr/bin/bash.
If that doesn't finally fix this mess then there is no 
longer going to be a /usr/bin/bash, binary or link.

	If this doesn't fill the bill I'll do a find and egrep for 
2008 and bash. That will then give me a list of the stuff I 
need to remove from that tired compile from this past January.

        Shalom,

        John B. Brown.
        [jbb@vcn.com]
        358 High Street,
        Buffalo, Wyoming
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