On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 17:59, Jan L. Peterson wrote:
> Is it, by chance, on an NFS mounted filesystem?  Or some other 
> filesystem where suid is disabled?  What does it say if you say "mount" 
> at it?
> 
>       -jan-

Yes, everything I'm doing is with NFS mounted file systems.  I think
what Andrew said about Linux magically turning off setuid stuff is what
is going on, because without changing a thing and running the script
(from my nfs mounted home dir where it copies stuff to my nfs mounted
home dir) in HP-UX works, in Linux doesn't work.  I just found a couple
other references telling me why I shouldn't use setuid scripts and why I
can't even if I wanted to on a Linux system.  I think the group option
is what we are going to have to go with, even though we are all already
a member of about 10 other groups...

Bryan   


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