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From: fdc@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Frank da Cruz)
Subject: Re: SCO Unix 5.05 - setuid and setgrp errors
Date: 8 Nov 1999 16:59:07 GMT
Organization: Columbia University
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To: kermit.misc@columbia.edu
In article <19991108113531.00892.00002399@ng-fu1.aol.com>,
StevenHill <stevenhill@aol.com> wrote:
: We have a situation where we are getting setuid and setgrp errors when
: C-Kermit is called from our program. C-Kermit is supplied by a vendor of
: ours, and we use it to transmit data to them. If we log in as root, or set
: it up so that when a user logs in they go to a prompt rather than running
: our applicaion, and then execute kermit from the command line, all works
: fine. We have about seventy other clients, all running SCO Unix 5.05, that
: are not having any problem at all. The one unique thing about this location
: is that their file system is set up such that the directory that our
: application is run out of is a virtual link to a partition. That is, our
: clients are usually set up so that the application is run from /usr/medical
: on the root file system, this client is set up so that the root file system
: is small, and the have a /dev/medical file system that is mounted as
: /usr/medical (or some such thing). Their hardware people say that
: /usr/medical is a virtual directory linked to the /dev/medical file system.
:
: The application is written in C (the version of C that came with SCO Xenix
: several years ago, never upgraded and a recent attempt to upgrade to the
: latest version of C on SCO Unix resulted in thousands of errors, mostly due
: to missing parameters to functions that have changed from then to now)
:
: Any thoughts as to what we can do would be appreciated. If other info is
: needed, I will do my best to acquire it.
:
What version of C-Kermit is it? What kind of connection are you trying to
make (dialed? network?). See:
http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/support.html#hints
for some pointers on what kind of info should be supplied in a tech support
question.
For dialup connections, please read the UNIX Appendix of "Using C-Kermit"
about the choices you have for giving C-Kermit access to the dialout devices,
how they work, and what the tradeoffs are.
- Frank