Thanks, Robert. Permissions on RT_Config.pm were set at 550 with root as
owner. I chmod’d them to 444 per your suggestion, and it worked. I had
read the man page for perldoc, but didn’t catch on.
btw, when I now run “perldoc /opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm”, I get three
syntax errors:
tracker:~ # perldoc /opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm
/opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm:443: Unmatched =back
/opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm:459: Unmatched =back
/opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm:471: Unmatched =back
Again, thanks!
Mike
“Robert Grasso” robert.grasso+nv@cedrat.com 7/30/2010 11:25 AM
Hi,
My rights on /opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm are 440 (should be the stock
ones); now, from man perldoc :
SECURITY
Because perldoc does not run properly tainted, and is known to
have security issues, when
run as the superuser it will attempt to drop privileges by
setting the effective and real
IDs to nobody’s or nouser’s account, or -2 if unavailable.
If it cannot relinquish its
privileges, it will not run.
If I chmod 444 /opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm, then perldoc (running as
root) is able to display it, whereas before it failed as yours
did.
Hope this helps
Robert GRASSO – System engineer
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[mailto:rt-users-bounces@lists.bestpractical.com] De la part
de Michael James
Envoyé : 29 juillet 2010 21:26
Cc : <RT Users
Objet : Re: [rt-users] Warning - perl idiot here
Returns nothing. Ah well, I’ll just read the darned file and
skip over the pod formatting. Thanks for the suggestion.
Mike
tracker:~ # perldoc -F /opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm
tracker:~ #
Todd Chapman todd@chaka.net 7/29/2010 3:06 PM >>>
Try: perldoc -F
How come I can’t view the documentation with RT_Config.pm
using perldoc?
tracker:~ # perldoc /opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm
Can’t open /opt/rt3/etc/RT_Config.pm: Permission denied at
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Pod/Perldoc.pm line 1380.
Mike
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