Received: from SOUTH-STATION-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po7.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA27337; Wed, 20 Dec 95 14:15:36 EST Received: from halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA11262; Wed, 20 Dec 95 14:15:36 EST Received: from freefall.FreeBSD.ORG by halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu; (5.65/1.1.8.2/19Aug95-0530PM) id AA22774; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 14:15:32 -0500 Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27539 Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:18:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA27414 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:17:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA27402 Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:17:52 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199512201617.IAA27402@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Authentication-Warning: freefall.freebsd.org: Host localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: davidg@root.com Cc: Stephen Hovey , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: replaceing usr/bin/login In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 20 Dec 1995 07:54:51 PST." <199512201554.HAA00147@corbin.Root.COM> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 08:17:51 -0800 From: "Justin T. Gibbs" Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, David Greenman wrote: >> >>Tried that - it didnt work. > > Did you do it as root? If so, the only other thing that could cause this to >fail would be if the sysctl variable kern.securelevel is > 0 (it shouldn't be >that way unless you've changed it). > >-DG Or fsck corrupted it and set more than just the immutable bit. I've seen this happen before. Do an ls -lo and turn off (via chflags) any of the flags on the file. -- Justin T. Gibbs =========================================== FreeBSD: Turning PCs into workstations ===========================================