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Re: ``Can't exec'' during installs ???



Also sprach David Z Maze (Mon 23 Jun 02003 at 02:21:23PM -0400):
> "Michael D. Schleif" <mds@helices.org> writes:
> 
> > Am I the only one getting debconf errors during installations?  I
> > suspect that this began after the upgrade to perl v5.8x, and the
> > installations appear to complete successfully . . .
> >
> > Preconfiguring packages ...
> > Can't exec "/tmp/config.156301": Permission denied at
> > /usr/share/perl/5.8.0/IPC/Open3.pm line 159.
> 
> Do you have your /tmp on a separate partition, that's mounted noexec?
> Don't do that; it gains you nothing in the way of security and breaks
> things that expect to be able to run scripts there.

Ah, yes!  I recently added that as a recommended security enhancement.

What is the best way to umount/mount /tmp, without rebooting?

   # sudo umount /tmp
   umount: /tmp: device is busy

What do you think?

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