Re: Bug#179125: maintainer scripts tries to exec script in /tmp
Oliver Elphick <olly@lfix.co.uk> wrote:
> Cc'ed to debian-devel for comments.
> Explanation: the postinst generates a temporary script for use during
> installation. Its name is generated with mktemp and it is stored in
> /tmp; it is deleted by a trap when the postinst terminates.
> On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 00:22, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
>> Preconfiguring packages ...
>> Can't exec "/tmp/config.151751": Permission denied at
>> /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/IPC/Open3.pm line 159.
> ...
>> I have /tmp mounted noexec for security reasons.
>> none on /tmp type tmpfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,size=500m)
>> You shouldn't rely on being able to execute scripts in /tmp.
[...]
I don't know who is right, but working around this issue should be
simple, just do it they way dpkg-preconfigure does and don't execute
the script directly. "/usr/bin/perl /tmp/config.151751" instead of
"/tmp/config.151751".
cu andreas
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