After a warm reboot this morning I found that I no longer had the ability to run my own commands even though the permissions are correct and ownership is lcl (uid=500). User system commands are OK so running a script via ruby for instance works but trying to execute the script by itself fails even though it is fully executable. This applies to all my local bin commands. Command aliases however do work as long as they do not involve running any of my bin files.
Even root cannot execute these bin commands; same message "Permission denied".
In addition the system has switched me to autologin. Trying to run mcc I was told it cannot be run in console mode (??). If I login as su mcc comes up in console mode, which I am not inclined to use. The hostname on this machine is belexeuli; this does not appear in the command prompt: [lcl@localhost ~]$ After su: [root@belexeuli lcl]# This may all have something to do with my adding groups and changing group ids yesterday in my attempts to implement a viable sudoers command. It worked and I could log out and in again without any problems. I even managed a reboot without trouble but today is another story. I suspect that solving these multiple problems is beyond my technical skill even with help so a full reinstall is probably the best bet. However I will await any comments. Len
