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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: Note! 2 versions of Perl in Release 2.1.6-Release Date: 22 Feb 1997 23:03:44 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 23 Message-ID: <5enu0g$tp@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <5doo2u$b64@lester.appstate.edu> <33019138.710D@visigenic.com> <33040791.178910154@news.diac.com> <5e1etc$djj@ui-gate.utell.co.uk> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:36028 brian@ui-gate.utell.co.uk (Brian Somers) wrote: > $ su > # chown root /usr/local/bin/tst; chmod 4755 /usr/local/bin/tst; exit > $ /usr/local/bin/tst > $ > > This isn't - the script just doesn't do anything - no matter how > big it is :( > > Can some kind soul show me where I'm being dim ? Thanks. You aren't. Perl 5's suidperl used to be broken for quite some time. The brokeness was due to blindly applying the suidperl patch as blessed by the Perl Gods (which was plain wrong for BSD). Seems that Mark Murray fixed this by November, 1996. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)