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Subject: SPAWN wants SYSPRV. HELP!
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Date: Mon, 20-Jul-87 16:40:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 20 16:40:00 1987
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Gentle VMS gurus,

Two of our VAX/VMS systems here have a strange problem, namely that
one must have SYSPRV in order for the SPAWN command to work.
Without it, SPAWN fails immediately with the error message
"%SYSTEM-F-NOPRIV, no privilege for attempted operation"
without connecting the terminal to a subprocess.

*flame on*
It would be really nice if such messages said what privilege was
needed and what operation was failing.
*flame off*

On the rest of our systems, the SPAWN command works as one would
expect: only TMPMBX is needed.
This is not intentional, but I can't find what is wrong.
I don't remember doing anything out of the ordinary when I created
the system disks. One is a 750 in a cluster with a private ra80
system disk, the other is a stand-alone 2 user microVax.

Presumably something is protected against access, but I haven't been
able to find it:

All the .EXE files in SYS$SYSTEM and SYS$LIBRARY
have world read and execute allowed. So do the directories.

SET WATCH FILE/CLASS=ALL doesn't type anything whatsoever during the
failure.

I haven't been able to find any SYSGEN parameter that differs between
the systems that should have this symptom. Various differences
are identical to those on other systems that work.

All of the accounts on the systems involved have sufficient
quotas enabled. (The entries are identical to those on other systems
that work.)

I'm about to check the protection of all of the various system and
user logical name tables, but was hoping somebody might have seen
this before.

Thanks,

Selden E. Ball, Jr.
(Wilson Lab's network and system manager)

Cornell University                 NYNEX: +1-607-255-0688
Laboratory of Nuclear Studies     BITNET: SYSTEM@CRNLNS
Wilson Synchrotron Lab              ARPA: SYSTEM%CRNLNS.BITNET@WISCVM.WISC.EDU
Judd Falls & Dryden Road          PHYSnet/HEPnet/SPAN:
Ithaca, NY, USA  14853             LNS61::SYSTEM = 44283::SYSTEM (node 43.251)