From: trevor.mclachlan@richemont.com
Date: Fri Apr 02 2004 - 02:52:00 EST
Thanks to everyone for your responses ...... I guess if I spent more time
looking around I am sure I would have found this, but pretty much panic'ed
when this happened :)
Tim Pointing nailed it though (his response below) ...... The PATH had
been changed it in the /.profile, and for some reason /usr/bin wasn't in
the PATH anymore .......
All ok now.
Tim's response and original post below .....
Thanks to all again.
Trev
|---------+------------------------------>
| | Tim Pointing |
| | <Tim.Pointing@DRDC-|
| | RDDC.gc.ca> |
| | |
| | 01/04/2004 18:08 |
| | |
|---------+------------------------------>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
| |
| To: trevor.mclachlan@richemont.com |
| cc: |
| Subject: Re: No groups for root |
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|
Trevor,
Root's path has presumably changed. The "uname" command (/sbin/uname)
is no longer in the search path. The BSD version of "ls" (/usr/ucb/ls)
, which, by default, doesn't show the group, is being run instead of
the normal "ls" (/usr/bin/ls).
trevor.mclachlan@richemont.com wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Something very weird has happened and I have no idea why ......
>
> I first new there was a problem when I logged in as root, and couldn't
run
> any commands .... Nothing was recognised ... Like this -
>
> [root@]> uname -a
> uname: not found
>
> Couldn't find the path for any of the commands ... Then I noticed that
> there are no groups in the ls command -
>
> [root@]> ls -al
> total 714
> drwxr-xr-x 25 root 1024 Feb 23 10:07 .
> drwxr-xr-x 25 root 1024 Feb 23 10:07 ..
> -rw------- 1 root 10113 Apr 1 17:37
.bash_history
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root 512 Jan 27 15:02 .cpan
> -rw------- 1 root 16048 Jan 23 12:29 .lsof_richemont4
> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root 124 Apr 1 17:42 .profile
> -rwxrwxrwx1 root 66 Mar 1 17:37 .rhosts
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Apr 1 02:00 1
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 9 Jan 21 17:24 bin -> ./usr/bin
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root 512 an 22 11:50 cdrom
> -rw------- 1 root 389432 Jan 22 11:42 core
> drwxr-xr-x 13 root 4096 Jan 22 16:14 dev
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root 512 Jan 21 17:44 devices
> drwxr-xr-x 38 root 3584 Mar 28 03:10 etc
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root 512 Jan 22 16:51 export
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root 1 Jan 22 16:14 home
> drwxr-xr-x 10 root 512 Jan 21 18:22 kernel
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root 9 Jan 21 17:24 lib -> ./usr/lib
> drwx------ 2 root 8192 Jan 21 17:18 lost+found
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root 512 Jan 21 17:24 mnt
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root 1 Jan 22 16:14 net
> drwxrwxr-x 16 root 512 Feb 9 15:05 opt
> drwxr-xr-x 4 root 1536 Feb 9 15:01 packages
> drwxr-xr-x 27 root 1536 Jan 21 17:43 platform
> dr-xr-xr-x 79 root 254912 Apr 1 17:46 proc
> drwxr-xr-x 2 root 1024 Jan 21 17:27 sbin
> -rwxrwxrwx 1 root 0 Feb 18 11:44 testfile
> drwxrwxrwt 8 root 1571 Apr 1 17:45 tmp
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root 512 Jan 21 17:44 unassigned
> drwxr-xr-x 36 root 1024 Jan 28 16:00 usr
> drwxr-xr-x 33 root 512 Mar 9 16:48 var
> dr-xr-xr-x 6 root 512 Jan 22 16:14 vol
> drwxr-xr-x 3 root 512 Jan 22 16:59 www
> dr-xr-xr-x 1 root 1 Apr 1 09:14 xfn
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root 0 Feb 20 14:54 zzfilezz
>
> It shows the owner, but no groups ...... Can anyone point me to why this
> would have happened and how I fix ?
>
> Thanks in advance
> Trev
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