X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Message-ID: <452D6B16.9070407@cygwin.com> Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2006 18:07:18 -0400 From: "Larry Hall (Cygwin)" Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.7) Gecko/20060916 Fedora/1.5.0.7-1.fc4.remi Thunderbird/1.5.0.7 Mnenhy/0.7.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: zero byte /bin/bash file - what creates it? References: <200610112043 DOT k9BKh1Lr008690 AT tigris DOT pounder DOT sol DOT net> In-Reply-To: <200610112043.k9BKh1Lr008690@tigris.pounder.sol.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Tom Rodman wrote: > Greetings: > > Admittedly just barely worth posting.. Over the years I've seen a > /bin/bash file, with 000 (---------) perms. This file is empty, has no > extension, and bash.exe is not touched. How the zero byte "/bin/bash" > get's created is a mystery. It subsequently blocks you from 'sshing' > in. It was created twice today - I was the only one on the server, in > both cases I was untarring (-jUxpf) or (--same-owner -jUxpf) a 70MB > file, sometime near the time of the "/bin/bash" timestamp. I believe in both > cases I may have ^C'd the tar job, as I was getting too many permissions > errors. It has to be something I did, I went through my bash history and > don't see anything obvious. > > uname -a shows > "CYGWIN_NT-5.2 c7mkes109 1.5.20s(0.155/4/2) 20060403 13:33:45 i686 Cygwin" > > I'm not asking for help just sharing info. I go for many months w/o this > happening, so I thought it was interesting that it happened twice today, > while I was dealing w/untar permissions challenges. Are you untarring files into '/' and does that tar file have a '/bin/bash' file? -- Larry Hall http://www.rfk.com RFK Partners, Inc. (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office 216 Dalton Rd. (508) 893-9889 - FAX Holliston, MA 01746 -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/