Well, the reason I brought up $USER inheritance is that on linux, $USER is root after an su to root, whereas on FreeBSD, the $USER is the same as before the su. Not really thinking, I thought that perhaps that refleted the inherited $UID, which I was wrong about. Sorry for that.
You might want to also include the relevant open() or creat() call from the apsfilter code. -Anthony. On Sun, Dec 16, 2001 at 10:13:18PM +0100, Andreas Klemm wrote: > > try it with an su -l, or explicitly set $USER to 'root', or even replace > > -n"$USER" with -n"root". this is all assuming that -n is specifying some > > sort of user privilege which you intend in this example to be root. > > if not, please forget this email. :) > > -Anthony. > > I'm looking for a technical reason, why I can't write to > /dev/stdout, which works under Linux but not with FreeBSD. > > It doesn't work for a user and not after doing a su -l. > > > Andreas /// > > -- > Andreas Klemm > Apsfilter Homepage http://www.apsfilter.org > Support over mailing-lists (only!) http://www.apsfilter.org/support > Mailing-list archive http://www.apsfilter.org/Lists-Archives > Songs from our band >> 64Bits << http://www.64bits.de > Inofficial band pages with add-on stuff http://www.apsfilter.org/64bits.html
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