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The Wednesday 2007-05-09 at 14:34 -0700, Randall R Schulz wrote:
> > I think your problem is that "/bin/sh" doesn't exist. For example:
>
> No Unix system can run without its primary shell. It's invoked all over
> the place to interpret command lines and run scripts, not just for
> interactive user sessions.
Right.
> It would be very odd for the shell not to be executable, but since root
> can still execute files without there x bit (am I remembering that
> right?),
Er... I dont think so... you can always execute a script that is not
marked executable by doing "sh scriptname"; this is true for root and
normals users, and it can be the bash shell, or any other interpreter.
> most critical system functions would still work even if the
> system were almost entirely crippled for ordinary (non-root) users.
>
>
> Carlos' guess about the file system holding /bin being mounted "noexec"
> is a good one. It seems like the most likely explanation.
Actually, I was thinking of the partition holding the configure script;
for example, "/home". My fuzzy memory says I heard of that in this very
list some other time ;-)
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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