set-user-id anomoly

[Tony Arnold]

Charles,

On 07/03/13 13:28, Charles Smith wrote:

> I have the following two files - does anybody have a clue how they can
> be different?
> 
> $ ls -l
> 
> -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

Are the above entries for the same directory? What is your pwd when you
did this?

It looks like you may have a file called "/home/cts/nodes/tcpdump". Try
enclosing this file name in quotes when you do a cmp.

Regards,
Tony.
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