On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Eric wrote: > However, this command works sometimes, and sometimes only results in > a "permission denied, operation not permitted" message. For > instance, /usr/bin/cu and /usr/bin/rsh resulted in that error message, > but /usr/bin/lpr did work. Why the difference?
sounds like the immutable bit is set: [root@lx jon]# ls -la /usr/bin/cu -r-sr-sr-x 1 uucp uucp 129908 Feb 1 14:08 /usr/bin/cu [root@lx jon]# chattr +i /usr/bin/cu [root@lx jon]# ls -la /usr/bin/cu -r-sr-sr-x 1 uucp uucp 129908 Feb 1 14:08 /usr/bin/cu [root@lx jon]# lsattr /usr/bin/cu ---i---------- /usr/bin/cu [root@lx jon]# chmod -s /usr/bin/cu chmod: changing permissions of `/usr/bin/cu': Operation not permitted [root@lx jon]# chattr -i /usr/bin/cu [root@lx jon]# chmod -s /usr/bin/cu [root@lx jon]# ls -la /usr/bin/cu -r-xr-xr-x 1 uucp uucp 129908 Feb 1 14:08 /usr/bin/cu -jon -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] || www.divisionbyzero.com gpg key: www.divisionbyzero.com/pubkey.asc think i have a virus? www.divisionbyzero.com/pgp.html "You are in a twisty little maze of Sendmail rules, all confusing."
