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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/pkcs7-signature Size: 3941 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.math.louisville.edu/pipermail/macgroup/attachments/20050131/9fa5d32c/attachment.bin
