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From: Snob Art Genre <benedict@echonyc.com>
To: Kyle Mestery <mestery@winternet.com>
cc: Brian Somers <brian@awfulhak.org>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Sig 12's with user PPP 
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On Thu, 28 Aug 1997, Kyle Mestery wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Aug 1997, Brian Somers wrote:
> 
> > Sounds *really* like an installation thing.  Can you remove the UID 
> > bit on ppp and run it as root.  You should get a core with the sig 12 
> > - it would be interesting to know what the syscall problem is.
> > 
> Sure, I can try this, but this happens regardless of whether or not I run
> ppp as root or as another user.

PPP has to run as root, but with the SUID bit set it won't produce a core
dump.


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."