Re: ps -f

In article <33aspc$ems@emory.mathcs.emory.edu> jgordon@systems.DHL.COM (Jim Gordon) writes: >> Hello, all, and thanks for the responses. To follow up, I tried >> all suggestions, and none worked. After going though three levels >> of Informix support, they have acknowledged a bug, all the way >> thru 5.03 that you cannot run ps in a SYSTEM call from a stored >> procedure. Just about every other unix command is okay, but not >> ps. You cant even put it in a shell script and invoke it. > >That's a shame. ps is a setuid program, usually to root. I wonder it that has anything to do with it. Scott