Nick,
In Linux, the SUID bit is ignored for script files. :-(
Been there, done that. (Almost bought the T-shirt. :)
Best regards
Gustav
Nick Thompson wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to make the wwwoffle caching proxy work with dial up.
> Wwwoffle is started at boot with an empty resolv.conf and will then
> complain about resolv.conf being changed by ppp after the connection is
> setup (Non-Authorititive lookup). I'm using Kppp to control the
> connection and am trying to use its post connection command option to
> restart wwwoffle and put it in online mode.
>
> I have a script, which works just fine if I am root (wwwoffle is running
> as root), but will not work if I am a user (don't own wwwoffle,
> therefore can't kill it). So I set the script ownership to root and
> turned on the SUID bit. But still I can't kill wwwoffle. Any ideas why?
> Is there a better approach?
>
> Here are the relevant bits from my script.
>
> case $1 in
> connect)
> /usr/lib/sendmail -q
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/wwwoffle stop
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/wwwoffle start
> ....
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>
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