reassign 406375 perl thanks On Thu, Jan 11, 2007 at 02:08:31PM +0100, Volker Epting wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jan 2007 10:18:50 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > I'm betting that the permissions on /dev/null on your system are broken. > > That is right, i'm wondering how this could be appear. > > # ll /dev/null > crwSrwSrw- 1 root root 1, 3 2006-12-04 13:27 /dev/null
Usually filesystem corruption, although it could be a rogue script somewhere. Brendan, perl behaves quite badly in this circumstance. Could validate_suid() be changed to skip validation of the permissions of the script if it happens to be BIT_BUCKET (i.e. -e is being used)? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

