Re: [LIH]Shell Problem

2004-03-25 Thread USM Bish
On Wed, Mar 24, 2004 at 12:29:30PM -0800, Rakesh Ambati wrote: > > Why does this command gr ables my linux virtual > console. > $echo -e '\016' > > And this one resets it. > > $echo -e '\017' > That is because you are passing ANSI esc sequences with the -e in the echo statement ... You would

Re: [LIH]Shell Problem

2004-03-24 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
[3/25/2004 1:59 AM] Rakesh Ambati : $echo -e '\016' And this one resets it. $echo -e '\017' Looking at what ASCII 016 and 017 stand for will give you a clue -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Suresh Ramasubramanian) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src$ mv linux Gnu/Linux mv: cannot move `linux' to `Gnu/Linux': No

[LIH]Shell Problem

2004-03-24 Thread Rakesh Ambati
hello list, Why does this command gr ables my linux virtual console. $echo -e '\016' And this one resets it. $echo -e '\017' TIA -arky __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time. http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html -

Re: [LIH] SHELL problem ....

2001-12-07 Thread Naren Devaiah
< Wrap lines to 72 characters in your mailer please > Setuid scripts are not allowed. They are a security risk and therefore don't run as you would expect. You might want to writ ea small C wrapper program and then setuid that program instead. -Naren On Fri, 7 Dec 2001, salil gk wrote: > Hi >

[LIH] SHELL problem ....

2001-12-07 Thread salil gk
Hi I have written a shell script as root and set the userID bit for that program. What this shell will do is execute a command which root owns. My intention is other users should be able to run this program if they keep this program in their path. But when a user try to execute this program,