Re: perl and setgid scripts

1996-05-21 Thread Richard Kettlewell
...in fact apropos my previous comments about perl, I note that the description reads as follows: Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language. An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's Swiss Army Chainsaw". Perl is optimized for scanning arbitrary t

perl and setgid scripts

1996-05-20 Thread Richard Kettlewell
I used to be able to do setgid (and indeed, setuid) scripts in perl; but after upgrading to 5.002-7, they break, keeping the uid/gid of the invoking process. This has just spannered my mail system, which uses a perl script to do the final delivery (and delivery agents must be setgid mail under Deb