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From: Peter McDermott
Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 00:00

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In demon.ip.support.unix G. Roderick Singleton <gerry@pathtech.org> wrote:
> Peter McDermott wrote:
>> 
>> Those enviroment variables are a serious pain in the arse
>> though. They've caught me out umpteen times in the past.
>> I'll read the man page again, see if I'm missing anything
>> obvious.

> In reading Peter's comments, I remembered that in SysV and its
> comtemporaries shells behave differently.  I.e. setuid stuff ends up
> not setuid. For Sun's ksh the following is the flag to use:

Well, I finally worked it out. Just another of those dumb
mistakes that I make all the time.

I was starting my scripts with #!/usr/bin/sh and only
have bash on this machine. Every other distro I've used
has had a symbolic link from sh to bash, but not this
one, apparently. :-(

Thanks for the help though.

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From: Peter McDermott <peter@petermc.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Sendmail Delivery Options
Date: 1999/08/11
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