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Ahh, it was because I was using the -s (shell) option, which:

> runs the shell specified by the SHELL envi-
> ronment variable if it is set or the shell as specified in
> passwd(5).

and the sysadmin must have changed something in the shell  
environment? A real newbie when it comes to *nix command line stuff...

thanks v much for your help Steve :)

Jake


On 12 Mar 2007, at 21:48, Steve Roome wrote:

> 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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