set-user-id anomoly

[Colin Law]

On 7 March 2013 16:33, Charles Smith <cts.private at yahoo.com> wrote:
> @Colin
>   If I use sudo, both work fine
>
> @Tony
>
>  $ pwd
>  /home/cts/w/1670

So you are in /home/cts/w/1670 and ls -l shows

-rwsr-xr-x 1 root cts 760184 Mar  6 07:40 /home/cts/nodes/tcpdump
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root cts 760184 Mar  5 23:55 tcpdump

that is a bit strange.  It seems you have a file called
"/home/cts/nodes/tcpdump" inside the folder /home/cts/w/1670.  I did
not know that was possible.

>
>  $ "./tcpdump"
>  tcpdump: no suitable device found

That is not what Tony suggested.  He was trying to get you to do the
compare on the file with the strange name.

Colin