/usr/local permissions problem

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danielmartinj

Hello everyone,

I have come across an interesting problem. Since I last used my Freebsd 7.2 server it was working fine and the power went out. Now when I log on as root using putty I get:
/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: Shared object "libXaw7.so.7" not found, required by "xcalc"

I also cannot start my apache server. /usr/local/sbin/apachectl start

The last thing I remember doing was changing my permissions last Friday.
chmod 777 * in various subdirectories of /usr/local and /usr/local itself when I was trying to create multiple instances of httpd

I have a feeling the reason I am getting these odd errors are a permissions problem in /usr/local and its sub directories. I was hoping someone could validate this and possibly let me know the best way to go about this problem?


Thanks,

matt
 
Hello there,

I thought it was just something really simple. However, I was not positive. It works now all I did is change those directories to chmod 755 and then rebooted at is seems like it is working now. I wonder why it does not work when set to chmod 777?
 
There is no specific answer other than that several applications (rightly) distrust an environment where everybody can write.
 
danielmartinj said:
The last thing I remember doing was changing my permissions last Friday.
chmod 777 * in various subdirectories of /usr/local and /usr/local itself when I was trying to create multiple instances of httpd
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Don't ever do that again. Never, EVER, give world write access without a very good reason.
 
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