On Linux (other unixes untested), I notice that when installing prebuilt binaries grab_vcsa is setuid root, but when building from source (svn or snapshot) it's only got basic permissions.

Is this something that should be done by the installation makefile, and if so does it merit a bug report?

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said:

On Linux (other unixes untested),

(afaik vcsa is a linux only thing)

I think this belongs to the distribution package level. The binary tgz distribution tries to set things up for systems without package system, therefore it has it.

Currently the makefiles don't have a grasp of files with differing sets of permissions. (other than executable or not).

Marco van de Voort wrote

In our previous episode, Mark Morgan Lloyd said: > On Linux (other unixes untested), (afaik vcsa is a linux only thing)

I can confirm it's not in the build for Solaris.

Thanks for the clarification :-)