Using 

system( '/bin/sh', '-pc', "cmd string w/optional stderr and stdout red
+irection" );

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worked! Excellent. What we had experienced in migrating to the newer OS (Solaris 11) was that some of our system() calls were honoring setuid/setgid and some were not. Yet they were all quite similar (i.e. system( "single param string")). And the Perl docs were not clear (to me) regarding the nuances: 
If there are no shell metacharacters in the argument, 
it is split into words and passed directly to "execvp", ...

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Anynow, I'm off to make many changes, replacing system() calls and backticks with calls to a ssystem() wrapper function. Thanks all! Mark

In reply to Re^3: setuid system() calls on Solaris 11 by baataboom
in thread setuid system() calls on Solaris 11 by baataboom

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