[ic] New Catalog Added Today, Existing Catalogs Quit Working

[Mike Heins]

Quoting Ron Dorman (rwd@csi1st.net):
> We only have one Interchange server (at this point) installed from tar ball.
> Yes, it WAS a permission problem.
> I just corrected the problem with the help of Ryan. (thanks much)
> 
> These are from the cgi-bin directory of the site with the catalogs before chmod
> u+s:
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx      6652 Jan 25 14:51 fabcat
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx      6652 Dec 18 22:45 hdicat
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx      6652 Dec 11 19:36 nwecat
> -rwxr-xr-x   1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx      6652 Dec 18 22:40 pmtcat
> 
> These are from the cgi-bin directory of the site with the catalogs after chmod u+s:
> 
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx      6652 Jan 25 14:51 fabcat
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx      6652 Dec 18 22:45 hdicat
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx      6652 Dec 11 19:36 nwecat
> -rwsr-xr-x   1 xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx      6652 Dec 18 22:40 pmtcat
> 
> All is working well again but I would like to find out what I did to cause the bit
> change.  Any ideas?

I think the usual suspect is 

	chown interchange cgi-bin/*

chown resets the SUID bit on most Unixen.

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