perl -e is acting funny in a chroot jail

[Austin Schutz]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 11:22:09AM -0700, Elmshauser, Erik wrote:
> > Do you have a /tmp in the jail?  Backrev versions of Perl (prior to
> > 5.8) write a small file in /tmp to run the -e script.  So the error
> > message perhaps is accurate... :)
>  
> > In 5.8, this was eliminated, because it can lead to a security hole.
>  
> Yeah, there was a /tmp there, but it was set to 755.  Setting it to 777
> does not seem to have resolved the issue.
>  

	/tmp should be set to 1777 to prevent other folks from monkeying with
your /tmp files. It is a security issue w/out the 1.

> root at charon:/# chmod 777 tmp/
> root at charon:/# ./usr/local/bin/perl -e 'exit'
> Can't open perl script "-e": No such file or directory
>  
> Also, that error looks like it is trying to use '-e' as a filename, I'm
> not sure, but I doubt that this is what perl would use for a temp file
> name...

	Try running truss/strace on it. That will show you what it's trying
to do.


	Austin
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