-bash: /usr/bin/java: cannot execute binary file

[kalimba]

I am kind of new to this stuff and I think I may have mixed up some settings and now my java command doesn't work. I have compiled and run basic java programs in the past on my machine. I can still compile programs using javac, but when i try to run a simple java program from the command line i get the following error:

-bash: /usr/bin/java: cannot execute binary file

I have been playing around with CLASSPATH, and tried changing the permissions on java. I really don't know what to do. I recently installed MySQL, but I am not sure if that has anything to do with it as it had been a while before that since I had last tried to run a java program.
Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[sedj]

chmod 755 /usr/bin/java

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[kalimba]

Thank you for your response sedji. That was one of the first things I tried though. I am working on mac OS X. I was wondering if there was a way to reinstall java or at least reset it to how it was originally when it worked. Thanks again.

 

[kalimba]

Well I never could figure out the problem, so I re installed the operating system and Java works again. In the future I would not like to reinstall the whole OS just to reset the jdk defaults. Is there a simpler way to do this? I am working on Mac OSX so I cant just download Java again. (I think)

 

[Miros]

You should be able to download just Java from the java.sun.com website.