On Mon, May 22, 2000 at 12:47:13PM -0400, Lee Bradshaw wrote: > I've upgraded several systems from slink to potato using a mirror I > made a few weeks ago. On some of the systems xterm works fine, but on > others it generates the error message: > > xterm: Error 14, errno 13: Permission denied > > rxvt works fine and seems to have the same permissions as xterm: > > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 81616 Mar 18 12:40 > /usr/X11R6/bin/rxvt-xterm* > -rwxr-sr-x 1 root utmp 161680 Mar 13 22:07 /usr/bin/X11/xterm*
hmm just a wild guess but is /var/run/utmp and/or /var/log/wtmp writable by group utmp? > I'm using xterm 3.3.6-6 which seems to be the latest available. I > can't "strace xterm", and I'm not sure what to look at without more > information than I see in the error message. Anyone else have any > ideas? you cannot strace a s[ug]id program, otherwise you could strace things like su and gain access to shadow passwords, among other nasty things (like run them through a debugger and make them start a shell instead) -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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