On 2006-07-26 Chris Adams wrote:
> 
> On 2006-07-26, at 12:27 AM, Christian Hammers wrote:
> > On 2006-07-25 Chris Adams wrote:
> >> An apt-get upgrade resulted in the following:
> >>
> >> Can't exec "/tmp/mysql-server-4.1.config.169501": Permission  
> >> denied at
> >> /usr/share/perl/5.8/IPC/Open3.pm line 168.
> >
> > Are you using some kind of SELinux which prohibits execution of  
> > scripts
> > in /tmp/ ?
> 
> No - this is a vanilla sarge install; /tmp is on the root partition.  
> Unfortunately the temp file was automatically deleted so I couldn't  
> examine it.

I would not expect it from a vanilla sarge install but do you have
mounted /tmp with noexec? Check with:
 mount | grep `df /tmp/. | tail -n 1 | awk '{print $1}' `
And try copying some file from /bin to /tmp and execute it there.

bye,

-christian-


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