From: Lisa Weihl (lweihl@cs.bgsu.edu)
Date: Mon Mar 01 2004 - 17:29:39 EST
Well, didn't take long for someone to find my error. A big thanks to
Henrik Mortensen for this suggestion.
"shooting from the hip, I'd bet some overzealous system-hardening-
fan-of-little-clue changed permissions on /dev/zero from 666 to
644, but truss -f -t open -p <pid-of-process-starting-vi> should
tell you."
Sorry to say it was me that was the
overzealous-person-of-little-clue:-) While setting up that backup scheme I
spoke about last week the script failed because of no access to /dev/zero.
That was because I needed to add the backup user to the sys group. But
while looking for /dev/zero I just happened to notice that it was world
writeable and hey, well, you know, that's bad:-) Thanks for bailing me
out. This is the crap that happens when you are the admin for Unix,
Windows (on which I spend TOO much time) and Mac. Someday I keep thinking
I'll have time to learn things more in depth.
I appreciate the other people who responded with ideas to use truss (I
always forget about that) and/or ldd to see what it was calling and to
check the environment variable paths.
Thanks to.....
Jason Santos
Paul Roetman
Kelly Setzer
John Malick
Michael Schulte
Frank Smith
Barbara Schelkle
Lisa
lweihl@cs.bgsu.edu
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