From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Dec 16 16:53:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from science.slc.edu (Science.SLC.Edu [198.83.6.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3572637B419 for ; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 16:53:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (from aschneid@localhost) by science.slc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fBH0otx36256; Sun, 16 Dec 2001 19:50:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from aschneid) Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 19:50:54 -0500 From: Anthony Schneider To: Andreas Klemm Cc: apsfilter-hackers@apsfilter.org, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aps2file doesn't work on FreeBSD Message-ID: <20011216195054.A36208@mail.slc.edu> References: <20011216203550.GA7135@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <20011216155358.A34707@mail.slc.edu> <20011216211318.GA902@titan.klemm.gtn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011216211318.GA902@titan.klemm.gtn.com>; from andreas@apsfilter.org on Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:13:18PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Well, the reason I brought up $USER inheritance is that on linux, $USER is = root after an su to root, whereas on FreeBSD, the $USER is the same as before th= e su. =20 Not really thinking, I thought that perhaps that refleted the inherited $UI= D, which I was wrong about. Sorry for that. You might want to also include the relevant open() or creat() call from the apsfilter code. -Anthony. On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:13:18PM +0100, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > try it with an su -l, or explicitly set $USER to 'root', or even replace > > -n"$USER" with -n"root". this is all assuming that -n is specifying so= me > > sort of user privilege which you intend in this example to be root. > > if not, please forget this email. :) > > -Anthony. >=20 > I'm looking for a technical reason, why I can't write to > /dev/stdout, which works under Linux but not with FreeBSD. >=20 > It doesn't work for a user and not after doing a su -l. >=20 >=20 > Andreas /// >=20 > --=20 > Andreas Klemm > Apsfilter Homepage http://www.apsfilter.org > Support over mailing-lists (only!) http://www.apsfilter.org/support > Mailing-list archive http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-A= rchives > Songs from our band >> 64Bits << http://www.64bits.de > Inofficial band pages with add-on stuff http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.= html --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwdQW0ACgkQ+rDjkNht5F2SJQCeMkW0Hl9cVQrfvdbQUPf74McH ZOgAn0d1pAW7OG4e7dt792tKARnij3da =B+13 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --tKW2IUtsqtDRztdT-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message