Re: HPUX expreserve == SunOS 4.13 expreserve?

[ashtonp () gb swissbank com (Paul Ashton)]

Thomas Lopatic <lopatic () dbs informatik uni-muenchen de> wrote:

> ...
> The only question is: Why did they set the set-user-id bit on expreserve,
> if /usr/preserve is world writeable anyway? (And vice versa.)

Be careful with using chmod u-s as a solution to expreserve problems.
Bear in mind that expreserve is often run on boot up as root, which is
often better than being setuid. I had this fixed in solaris.

Paul