[LUNI] POSIX setuid doesn't work on Sarge but works on Woody

[Jay Strauss]

Sean T. Kirby wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Mar 2005 20:21:27 -0600, "Jay Strauss" said:
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I have a simple script (boiled down to the essence) that daemonizes, if 
>>I run it on my woody box it works if I run it on my Sarge box it doesn't.
>>
>>Any idea what I have to configure, change, or get new software to fix
>>this?
>>
>>Below is the example
>>
>>Thanks
>>Jay
>>
>>jstrauss at copper:~$ cat demon
>>#!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>>use Net::Server::Daemonize qw(daemonize);
>>
>>daemonize(
>>         'jstrauss',   # User
>>         'jstrauss',   # Group
>>         'my.pid'      # Path to PID file
>>);
>>
>>jstrauss at copper:~$ ./demon
>>Couldn't POSIX::setuid to "1000" [Operation not permitted]
> 
> 
> Try setting the setuid/setgid bits on the script.

Last night I started using a different approach, because I couldn't 
figure it out.  The new module Proc::Daemon is working good enough for 
my purposes.  Thanks though

Jay