SuSe 10.1 and filePro 5.0.14D4

[Nancy Palmquist]

Guys,

I got another anomoly.  The setperms program will not set the suid bit. 
(I think I got the name right for that.)

So I get:

-rwxr-xr-x for dclerk, rclerk, etc. when it should be
-rwsr-xr-x

the line that reads the fp.list file for the modes and owners is doing 
something weird or the commands do not work.

chmod $mode $file

I changed the command line to read:

chmod -v $mode $file >>/tmp/junk

And the output indicates that it did change the mod as it should.  But 
when I list the directory, nothing has the suid bit set.

I tried getting rid of the directory link they use to the install so fp 
was not a linked folder.  Did not help.

If I do the command manually, it works fine.

Has anyone else noticed this?

Is it a security issue somehow?

I fussed with the setperms script and got a version that works.

The installed version has the following two lines:

chmod $mode $file
chown $owner $file


If I exchange them, it seems to work correctly.

chown $owner $file
chmod $mode $file

If the owner is changed from the command line, the suid bit is removed. 
   Can anyone else verify this behavior?

This makes no sense to me.  Anyone have any input on this sillyness?

Thanks,

Nancy
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