Errors at login, always worked fine
 

Have a server that I've logged into for months.

Today when I login, it logs in but I see the following:

Last login: Mon Aug 16 10:15:43 2010 from 192.168.1.147
-bash: id: command not found
-bash: [: =: unary operator expected
-bash: id: command not found
-bash: dircolors: command not found
-bash: /usr/bin/id: Permission denied
-bash: [: =: unary operator expected
-bash: /usr/bin/id: Permission denied
-bash: [: =: unary operator expected
-bash: id: command not found
-bash: id: command not found

I can still SU so I have control, but not sure what is happening here.

Would LOVE some help

[EDIT]Maybe no a $PATH issue (but show us 'echo $PATH' anyway), did you change file group/ownership? What does 'stat /usr/bin/id' return?[/EDIT]

Tried stat /usr/bin/id and got this: -bash: stat: command not found

Did $PATH and got this:

-bash: /usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/chrootssh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/tim/bin: Permission denied


Does that help?

Looks like I can't use many commands, like scp, ssh, etc.

I am part of WHEEL still, so I can su just fine. Sudo says command not found.

No changes to the environment at all.

Could try '/usr/bin/stat /usr/bin/id' but I doubt that'll work since 'stat' resides in /usr/bin too...


I asked for 'echo $PATH'.


In any case it can't be a $PATH issue since executing a non-existing command (say 'perlddebug') should return "No such file or directory". The "command not found" could be a literal reference to /usr not being mounted (check with '/bin/mount' or '/bin/grep usr /proc/mounts') but then I can't place the "Permission denied"...


Best review changes since last login using the available package management tools (if any) that come with the distro (which one?) and review /var/log log files.

Looked at /var/log messages and secure, nothing out of the ordinary. Suddenly started at 03am this morning.

I noticed it because a monitoring script started failing at 03:06:14 am



-bash: /usr/bin/stat: Permission denied


-bash: /usr/bin/id: Permission denied


echo $PATH
/usr/kerberos/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/chrootssh/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/home/timmy/bin



RedHat Enterprise Linux 5.1

Not sure what to do next???

@macking,
What kind of system are you running, does it have anything to do with the recent firmware updates, ver. 6.117 i think? not sure,. I had one of the original mac books, and I ended up replacing it because one day it stopped being able to locate my root directory when I logged in to the company site, so maybe its just a hardware flaw? good luck.
-D

Did you check the mount commands I showed?