programs disappear

[roland]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 10:03:02 +0200, Steve Searle <steve at stevesearle.com>  
wrote:

> Around 08:24am on Friday, October 23, 2009 (UK time), roland scrawled:
>
>> wenn I do the folllowing
>>
>> [root at svtdp01 roland]# crontab -e
>> crontab: "/bin/vi" killed; signal 4 (no core dumped)
>>
>> [root at svtdp01 roland]# vi
>> Illegal instruction
>>
>> Apparently /bin/vi has disappeared.
>
> Unlikely, if it had you would have a response of: "bash: vi: command not
> found"
>
> What is the output of: "which vi"?
>
> You could try reinstalling vim-minimal.
>
the answer on "which vi" :
/bin/vi

I reinstalled vim-minimal and now it works.
But how can this happen

Thanks very much


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