Perl's "-T" flag turns on taint checking. Check out the perlsec manpage
for more info. Briefly, though, taint checking tells perl (among other
things) not to trust environment variables such as $ENV{PATH}, and warn
you if you make any implicit use of them when you run UNIX commands. You
can avoid this error by explicitly setting the PATH before you execute
external commands:
$ENV{'PATH'} = "/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin";
-Rob von Behren
On Sat, 2 Oct 1999, Pepi wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Does anyone now what that server error suggests:
>
> Insecure $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at
> /home/web/perl/contact.pl line 46.
>
>
> Close to this line in this source file I have:
>
> open (SENDMAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t")
> or unexpected("contact.pl: Can't open sendmail process: $!\n");
>
> print SENDMAIL "To:support\@findmax.com\n";
> print SENDMAIL "From:".$input{'email'}."\n";
> print SENDMAIL "Subject: [contact form]".$input{'subject'}."\n\n";
> print SENDMAIL $input{'message'}."\n";
>
> close (SENDMAIL)
> or intecept("contact.pl: Sendmail did not finish w/ success: $!");
>
>
> Thank you!
>
>
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