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by actionowl 2068 days ago
I've probably seen worst than this but this one comes to mind.

A sysadmin had (I can only assume accidentally) removed the SUID bit from the crontab binary causing an application we used that invoked the binary to not work. To even allow this to work we had a custom SELinux module that we suspected had the issue.

I ended up comparing systrace output between a working instance and the broken instance (in prod) to track it down.