From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 10:30:41 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1E00937B6CE for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:30:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from www.clubplus.net (ns1.clubplus.net [216.191.22.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3DF4843E3B for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 10:30:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david@skytrackercanada.com) Received: from skytrackercanada.com (cust29.209.188.66.dsl.accessv.com [209.188.66.29]) by www.clubplus.net (8.11.4/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g9UITtr00879 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:29:56 -0500 Received: (from david@localhost) by skytrackercanada.com (8.12.6/8.12.3) id g9UIGBPM032122 for questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:16:11 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from david) Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2002 13:16:10 -0500 From: David Banning To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: question on su use Message-ID: <20021030131610.A32093@skytrackercanada.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I am attempting to create a simple user shell executable which will execute a root command. Executing; su root killall squid requests root's password, and then issues a; killall: /usr/bin/killall: cannot execute binary file while killall executes by root no problem. Any idea what's going on here? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message