perl configuration problem

2004-06-22 Thread Kemin Zhou
First thank a lot for Geoffrey's reply to my previous question. Here I have a very complicated problem that I want to share with you and seeking some opinion. I am using RedHat 9.0. Somehow, some of my perl packages could not be made (the routine perl Makefile.PL generates garbage owing to the ch

Re: perl configuration problem

2004-06-22 Thread William McKee
Hi Kemin, I do not think that your taint problems are related to setgid. My experience with taint has taught me not to trust the error output. In this case, you are using ModPerl::Registry which means that your script could be the one which is supplying tainted data. Are you sure that you are unta

Re: perl configuration problem

2004-06-23 Thread Stas Bekman
Kemin Zhou wrote: [...] The perl works fine on my system. When I run perl programs through apaches, whenever the program used or its module uses Socket.pm for example database connections using sockets, my web application through mod_perl will not work giving the following error message: [Tue Ju

Re: perl configuration problem

2004-06-25 Thread Kemin Zhou
Thanks a lot for Stas and Willian comment. Both of you are correct. I figured out my problem: it came from my program reading a configuration file. When Taint Check (-T in perl or PerlSwitches +T or TaintCheck On in httpd.conf) is turned on, any file handle is thought to be tainted. In this

Re: perl configuration problem

2004-06-27 Thread Stas Bekman
Kemin Zhou wrote: Thanks a lot for Stas and Willian comment. Both of you are correct. I figured out my problem: it came from my program reading a configuration file. When Taint Check (-T in perl or PerlSwitches +T or TaintCheck On in httpd.conf) is turned on, any file handle is thought to be