Permission Problem

[Kenneth Brody]

"Lerebours, Jose" wrote:
> 
> Well, I found the root cause of the problem.
> 
> There were three different copies of rclerk
> within $PATH so the first found was executed
> and it was not /appl/fp/rclerk.

Only if you have "rclerk" on the menu command line, rather than
the normal "/fp/rclerk", which will execute from $PFPROG/fp/rclerk.

> Why would any one do this is beyond me.  I
> found:
> 
> 1) Not set with right chmod - of course

setperms only sets permissions on the programs in $PFPROG/fp

> 2) Different size from binaries found in ~/fp

It was a different version and/or user count.

> How often does this happen?  Why in the world
> would one need to do such thing?  I am quickly
> loosing respect for original sysadmin.

Where were the other programs?  It's not that uncommon to have
multiple versions of filePro in different directories, and to
switch between them using PFPROG.  However, having multiple
versions, and have all of them on PATH, is probably rare.

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