SUMMARY: chmod problem

I got lots of responses.
May Thanks to Scott, Andrew, John and Chamkura. Sepcial thanks to John
Benjamins as his solution worked great without any copy, ftp or CD.

Scott
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You can always boot from cdrom and change it.

Andrew Hall
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scp a copy of chmod from another server to /tmp/

/tmp/chmod 755 /bin/chmod
/bin/chmod 755 test1
rm /tmp/chmod

John Benjamins
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As root, do something like this:

cd /tmp
mkdir bin
cd bin
(umask 000 ; cp -p /bin/ls mychmod )
(umask 000 ; cp /bin/chmod mychmod )
./mychmod +x /bin/chmod

Chamkura
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Tar it and ftp to another box.  Change the permission and ftp back as
tar.


As root, do something like this:

cd /tmp
mkdir bin
cd bin
(umask 000 ; cp -p /bin/ls mychmod )
(umask 000 ; cp /bin/chmod mychmod )
./mychmod +x /bin/chmod

Thanks a lot.
B

My Original Question was:

Hi Gurus,

I had a problem with chmod on Solaris 2.6. When I try to assign
permission with chmod it says permission denied. When I checked the
permission on chmod itself it doesn't have execute permission. This was
kind of surprising how chmod itself doesn't have execute permission. Now
I can't assign any permission on that box. Unfortunately this is the
only Solaris 2.6 box so I can't even copy from other Server. Any help is
greatly appreciated.

I will summarize.

Regards

B



bash-2.03# ls -l /usr/bin/chmod

-r--r--r--   1 root     bin        18236 Jan  5  2000 /usr/bin/chmod

bash-2.03# ls -l test1

-rw-r--r--   1 root     other          0 Oct 27 10:43 test1

bash-2.03# chmod 755 test1

bash: /bin/chmod: Permission denied

bash-2.03# . /usr/bin/chmod 755 test1

bash: .: /usr/bin/chmod: cannot execute binary file
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