by I think it's more likely that I said something like "may" not run.Quote:>Noticed in a post made couple weeks ago (sorry for the laps of time, but
>I've been moving....ACK!) Anyways, in your message you had stated that
>a binary will not run on v2.3 if it was originated from v2.4. Are these
>files related if you've compiled them yourself? In this case specific,
>I've used binaries that was on Solaris v2.4 to a Solaris v2.3 system and
>have had no problems. The file in reference was Solaris v2.4 '/bin/at' to
>replace on Solaris v2.3 due to a bug related problem that was never fixed
>by a patch that I'm aware of. The problem that I'm speaking of is 'at -f'
>which is available to read any file on the system regardless of the perms
>level on Solaris v2.3. Makes it real interesting grabbing /etc/shadow.
That is to be expected. Or any progress would become extremely hard.
Many programs will work fine, other may break.
There was a patch:Quote:>Bug was fixed in Solaris v2.4, so I moved over the binary to v2.3, and have
>not experianced a problem with it.
Patch-ID# 101572-03
Keywords: at cron jobs queue wrong diskless security
Synopsis: SunOS 5.3: cron and at fixes
Date: Oct/24/94
Which is basically the entire Solaris 2.4 cron subsystem (including
at and crontab) for Solaris 2.3.
It fixes the bug.
Casper