Showing posts with label chmod. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chmod. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

What to do if you cannot execute CHMOD?




If you just ran 'chmod -x /bin/chmod'. What to do? How to recover it?
 
If you have just removed execute permission on chmod (/bin/chmod).
So that now you cannot modify file permissions. Not even for chmod itself .
chmod remains useless on your system.

Here is the solution for the problem.

Run the below commands whichever works in your server.

sudo /lib/ld-linux.so.2 /bin/chmod 755 /bin/