Subject: Re: Problem with PS after update to 1.3.2
To: Roger Fischer <roger@badger1.net>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 06/16/1998 21:48:21
Roger Fischer wrote:
> At 9:11 PM -0700 6/16/98, Allen Briggs wrote:
> >> from 1.3 to 1.3.2, PS only works after I SU to root.  After the update, I
> >> did copy my old /etc/group file to /etc so I know I'm part of wheel.  Does
> >
> >When you upgraded, you probably extracted the tar files without the -p
> >option.  Check your permissions on /bin/ps--they should be something
> >like:
> >
> >-r-xr-sr-x  1 bin  kmem  167936 Jun  1 00:12 /bin/ps
> 
> Mine show an ownership/group of 'root wheel'.  Do I need to reinstall the
> binaries?  or all of them?  here is the command I used.

Probably base.tgz....
 
> tar --unlink -xzvpf whatever.tgz

Are you sure?  The above should give you the proper permissions if you ran
it as root in the first place...

> max# ls -l /bin/ps
> -r-xr-sr-x  1 root  wheel  155648 May 16 12:11 /bin/ps
> max#

definitely needs to be bin:kmem

later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - PMD                 Intel Corporation
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