(knock on wood) but when I applied the security patch I didn't have any problems. It does appear to have touched the files you mention--I checked my ssh and it was indeed updated on January 14 when I ran the security update.
I think I can search for all the /usr/bin files touched on January 14 and email them, or FTP if you have an anonymous FTP site you want to use. --- Rex. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Bill Rising Sent: Monday, January 31, 2005 9:48 PM To: MacUser Group Subject: MacGroup: bad binaries Hey Folks, Current Problem: many of the files in /usr/bin (ssh, smbclient, a few others) are all listed as being size 0 and not running - as though the files were not there, but something issued a 'touch' command. All of the files which have shrunk to nothing have a modified date of the day I tried to run the Security 2005-01 (the most recent security patch), only to have it crash and burn. I tried running the security update again - no luck. I then did something which is probably stupid (because it destroyed record-keeping) - I sudo rm'ed all the trashed (i.e. size 0) 'binaries'. I ran the security update again - no luck. So, I appear to be stuck with no ssh, no smbclient and no ??? (here's where erasing the files was dumb). All I recall is that there were 12 bad files. How can I get the binaries back? I hope I don't have to reinstall OS X and then go through the update circus. :<( Thanks for any tips, Bill | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be January 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | List posting address: <mailto:macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu> | List Web page: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>
