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From: mckee@hpfcdc.HP.COM (Bret McKee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: HPUX 7.0 cu(1) complaints
Message-ID: <5570398@hpfcdc.HP.COM>
Date: 12 Apr 90 19:40:26 GMT
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>First, cu seems to flush all its environment variables except
>PATH and LANG.  According to the System Security manual this is
>now done by all standard setuid-root programs.  The trouble with
>cu doing it is that subprocesses spawned with ~! or ~& don't get
>any of the rest of the user's environment.  This is a REAL serious
>problem for some cu scripts that I have.  Does anyone have a workaround?

Unfortunatly there is not convient workaround.  I have just completed making
the changes for release 8.0 which will correct this problem, but I realize that
this doesn't help you right now.  If it is a huge problem you might want to 
go through online support to see about getting a patch.


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Bret Mckee

Hewlett Packard 
HP-UX Development Lab
Phone:(303)229-6116	email: mckee@hpmckee or mckee%hpmckee@hplabs.hp.com
Copyright (c) Bret Mckee 1990.  All Rights Reserved.
 
Of course, these are just my opinions...