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Check a few things like.

which sudo

list out your shell aliases (I have no idea what shell you are using
though)

whereis sudo

then depending on your OS try some variant of ptrace, dttrace etc
and watch for stuff.

or mv the mv command to mv.x and replace the mv command with
your own wrapper (at your own peril!)

with a script like this one, which I've got for ifconfig for the
time being....

steve at zebedee 1 0 % cat /sbin/ifconfig
#!/bin/sh

logger "$PPID (`cat /proc/$PPID/cmdline`) called ifconfig $*"
/sbin/ifconfig.x $*


......

Then again, you'll need to fix the `cat /proc...` to work on your os,
or use ps or something, if you can't do this then I'm afraid you'll
need to give us slightly more information on what platform and
configuration you've got.

Good luck,

        Steve


On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:01:21PM +0000, World of Jake wrote:
> I used to be able to "sudo -s anyoldcommand" on a remote machine that  
> someone else has set up, but now I get this error message when I try  
> to sudo:
> 
> "mv: mv: cannot execute binary file"
> 
> But it works if I just type in the command as a regular user. Anyone  
> any ideas? Hopefully the sysadmin will fix it this eve, I'm just  
> curious ;)
> 
> cheers, Jake
> 
> 
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