Remeber when I ranted about RH 6.0...

[Derek Martin]

On Thu, 29 Jul 1999, Christoph Doerbeck A242369 wrote:

> Gordon & and I have spent the last 15 minutes conferencing, truss'ing and
> reading a plethora of man pages.
> 
> 	xterm calls grantpt() which execve("/usr/lib/pt_chmod" ... )
> 
> If you look, /usr/lib/pt_chmod is setuid.  Mystery solved!!!
> 
> The key to unlock this whole mess was to run
> 
> 	truss -f xterm > /tmp/xterm.out 2>&1
> 
> and then vi /tmp/xterm.out and sift through the rubble...
> 
> - Christoph

Know where I can get truss for Linux?
:)


Derek D. Martin           |  UNIX System Administrator
d_martin at worldnet.att.net |  dmartin at lancity.com

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