/usr/local/bin/p: line 79: /appl/fp/runmenu: Permission denied

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, Bruce Easton via Filepro-list wrote:
>I see that Ken Cole and Nancy addressed this.  Just one point - the commands
>to resolve (i.e., 'chmod 4755' or 'chmod +s') engage the 'setuid' bit, not
>the 'sticky' bit.  Introduced in Unix back in the 70's, both of these have
>often been confused with one another.

Also of note, if one is going to change the sticky bit, the owner and group
must be set first with chown which will reset the sticky bit.

Bill
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