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From: "Nickolay A. Kritsky" <nkritsky@internethelp.ru>
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Subject: Re: SGID make
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    I thank you all for your suggestions and think that it _is_ GNU make. It seems to be installed from "package collections"
located on 4.2 CD, I will check it later.

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-----Original Message-----
From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To: Nickolay A. Kritsky <nkritsky@internethelp.ru>
Cc: security@FreeBSD.ORG <security@FreeBSD.ORG>
Date: 7 èþíÿ 2001 ã. 19:47
Subject: Re: SGID make


>* Nickolay A. Kritsky <nkritsky@internethelp.ru> [010607 11:19] wrote:
>>     Can anybody tell me why /usr/local/bin/make in  FreeBSD 4.2 is SGID kmem? I thought that make is intended only for compiling
>> huge C programs, isnt it?
>>
>> #ls -l /usr/local/bin/make
>> -rwxr-sr-x  1 root  kmem  445486 May 14 15:58 /usr/local/bin/make
>
>As people have stated this isn't our make, it's most likely GNU make
>installed without using the port.
>
>The reason for the sgid'ness is most likely so that the binary can
>query the system load average to optimize parrallel compliation
>without overwhelming the system.
>
>Although, this is sort of silly as the info should be available via
>sysctl in FreeBSD.
>
>--
>-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
>Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology,"
>start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom.
>
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