Casper.Dik at Sun.COM wrote: >> Yeah, you'll notice that if you try to su to root and run installers >> that run pkgadd internally. I use this method, and the StarOffice 8 >> installer failed quite mysteriously until I realized it was just an >> instance of that problem and reset TMPDIR to something else. > > This, unfortunately, kills the whole idea in my mind. > (I vaguely remembered similar issues from the past) > > And while we all agree that not being able to use $TMPDIR should > not cause a horrid failure in any application, I'm afraid that > we'd need to fix those bugs first. > > (Strange, though, since installers usually run as root; so this > was with an NFS $TMPDIR?) >
No, it was just running the installer within a setuid wrapper using a local $TMPDIR set to 700. Not really a recommended practice, so I don't know that it's fatal to the idea, just pointing out that it does in fact happen for some cases. Dave
