From: coburn@clovax.enet.dec.com (John T. Coburn) Subject: Re: 'touch' and SLS .99pl4 : HELP! Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 16:44:28 GMT
In article <1993Feb13.195924.1@cc.newcastle.edu.au>, glgam@cc.newcastle.edu.au (GLGAM) writes...
:
:Can some kind soul please tell me some possible reasons why the command
:'/bin/touch' is resulting in '/bin/touch: cannot execute binary file' (or
:something similar).. The reason I ask is that I have just tried to install
:SLS 0.99pl4 and am finding that at login, this error message is being
Check the size of /bin/touch - if it 12800 bytes (maybe 12000) delete it and
replace it with /usr/bin/touch which works OK.
:displayed. I am subsequently not allowed to login, and must wait till
:single user mode is invoked..(some time later) where I can manually
:enter the command 'touch utmp' from the /etc directory.. any attempt
:to prefix the touch command results in the error.. oh btw.. what script
:controls what is executed at login ? and can I easily edit it ? and
:why does touch not like a full path ?
Look at /etc/rc and /etc/rc.local for the startup scripts.
:
:Regards,
:
:Scott Mackenzie..
:Newcastle, Australia..
:
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