Permission Problem

[Lerebours, Jose]

> 
> > 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.
> 

I have not checked the menus - they use "Menu Maestro".  I never
use /fp/rclerk but I include /appl/fp within PATH and I have
no problem with this.

> > 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.
> 

Not sure but it makes me wonder.  

> > 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.
> 

The additional PATH directories are not ~/fp installs.  These
directories are just repository for shell scripts and/or
application specific programs.  I am going back and check
how many others of the filePro family are there.

I too use scripts to switch between versions but not versions
of filePro but applications.  I simply change variables to point
to a different directory where application files are kept but
always use same filePro version/binaries.  Well, I guess I have
not have the need to support more than one version on a single
server but can see where this may be a possibility (having two or 
more customers and they are not all par with filePro version).

Regards;


Jose Lerebours