error loading ilbrarys

[axman505]

When i try to run the w and uptime commands i get the following error. Is this just a permissions problem or is there something else wrong? These commands both work under root, but not as users.

[aaron@Bravo /]$ w
w: error while loading shared libraries: libproc.so.2.0.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[aaron@Bravo /]$ uptime
uptime: error while loading shared libraries: libproc.so.2.0.7: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
[aaron@Bravo /]$

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

This means you don't have the 'procps' rpm installed - e.g. for redhat 7.2 --> ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/redhat/7.2/en/os/i386/RedHat/RPMS/procps-2.0.7-11.i386.rpm

Just install that with

rpm -Uvh procps*.rpm

Hope this helps

 

[axman505]

then can i ask why it works when i am logged in as root?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,

Hmmmm... didn't read that one properly !

Are there any strange permissions on :

ls -l /lib/libproc.so.2.0.7

Regards

 

[axman505]

permissions are set to octal mode of 700


[aaron@Bravo aaron]$ ls -l /lib/libproc.so.2.0.7
-rwx------ 1 root root 35780 Nov 12 06:49 /lib/libproc.so.2.0.7
[aaron@Bravo aaron]$

what is the correct setting??
i would imagine 644

 

[axman505]

should all the files in the lib folder have the same permissions?

 

[ifincham]

Hi,



Mine is -rwxr-xr-x (755) (on RH 7.1) so I'd do a :



chmod 755 /lib/libproc.so.2.0.7



Clearly as you had it no-one other than root could access that library.



Regards