Looking for Ideas

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 01:50:15PM -0400, Del wrote:
>    Problem is, when the users get in and start using the files the
>    next day, filePro creates new lock files with read write permission
>    for filePro only.
>
>    This is ok when running regular filePro apps, but when users run
>    FPSQL they get errors saying permission is denied on the lockfile.
>    So they can't run their FPSQL reports unless they log in as root. I
>    don't want them logging in as root.
>
>    Why doesn't FPSQL run as filePro with access to filePro owned files
>    like the rest of the filePro apps? I can run dclerk on these files
>    just fine, but FPSQL gets a permission error on the lockfile.

This sounds like what happens when the SUID bits get knocked off the
classic filePro binaries; is your fpSQL SUID filepro?

Cheers,
-- jra
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