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- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]