Have a script that was working on BSDI BSD/OS 3.0 recently upgraded sendmail Version 8.11.4 Compiled with: MAP_REGEX LOG MATCHGECOS MIME7TO8 MIME8TO7 NAMED_BIND NETINET NETISO NETUNIX NEWDB QUEUE SCANF SMTP USERDB XDEBUG permissions -r-sr-xr-x 1 root bin 629411 Jun 1 16:23 /usr/sbin/sendmail and am now getting an error when attempting to open a pipe to sendmail open(MAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t"); I can duplicate the error at the shell level so apparently it is not directly mod_perl related. Error is: main: setreuid(1, 0) failed: Operation not permitted perl is This is perl, version 5.003_02 + suidperl security patch What's wrong?? Is this the "kernel bug" described in programming perl v3, and if so what can I do about it. [EMAIL PROTECTED]