From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 19 5:52:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au [203.2.75.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EBA0B37B5B6 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 05:52:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webtastic@dingoblue.net.au) Received: from nutter (adax2-189.dialup.optusnet.com.au [198.142.240.189]) by mail03.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id WAA20091 for ; Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:52:35 +1000 Message-ID: <005e01bfa9fd$e7bce6c0$0d00a8c0@nutter> From: "Richard Sim" To: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: Problem with things running from root when they shouldn't be Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 22:20:54 +0930 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_005B_01BFAA4D.875A29A0" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3612.1700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3612.1700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_005B_01BFAA4D.875A29A0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi all, I have a problem on a FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE box where when something is = executed by another process, it is always run as root. This happens with = everything, including the crontab, make, even scripts that run other = things like botchk. Does anyone know what could cause this problem, and possible = solutions? Please be as descriptive as possible btw, thanx. regards, Richard. ------=_NextPart_000_005B_01BFAA4D.875A29A0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi all,

I have a problem on a = FreeBSD=20 3.3-RELEASE box where when something is executed by another process, it = is=20 always run as root. This happens with everything, including the crontab, = make,=20 even scripts that run other things like botchk.

Does anyone know what = could cause=20 this problem, and possible solutions? Please be as descriptive as = possible btw,=20 thanx.

regards,

Richard.

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