"grep" not working

[Vu Pham]

On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 09:06 +0200, Dirk Moolman wrote:
> This is something I haven't seen before.  One of my developers, uses
> grep to assist in client queries (to find files and info in unload
> files).
> 
> When she does a grep on certain strings, she can't find anything, but
> when I do the same grep, logged in as root, I find data.
> 
> What would cause this ?    I will have to compare her login with root's
> login, but I would appreciate some suggestions / tips from the guru's.
> 
> 
I know my answer is not well-thought before posting, but you mentioned
grep to "find files", so maybe the difference is her account has no
permissions to access some directories which root can ?

Vu