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ERROR in Slackware's perl-5.000.tgz on Sunsite!!
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Tue May 9 12:16:24 1995
Date: Tue, 9 May 1995 16:48:57 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
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From: Alaric <alaric@news1.best.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: ERROR in Slackware's perl-5.000.tgz on Sunsite!!
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Keywords: Warning, perl, Slackware, package, permissions
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
References:
The /pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/contrib/perl-5.000.tgz on Sunsite has a
problem. The archive *includes the "." directory*, with permissions 700. If
you unpack this package in /, as you are supposed to do, it will change the
permissions of / to 700, and suddenly root will be the only user who can
execute *anything*, read any directory, or even log in.
Of course, once you know the problem exists, it's simple to fix by the
expedient of setting the permissions of / back to 755. You can also work
around it by unpacking the archive someplace else and copying the contents to
the appropriate locations.
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