Right: in this case /tmp is being mounted noexec. Thanks again.
Chris -----Original Message----- From: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 14 April 2010 10:41 AM To: Chris Dornan Cc: Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH; 'Corey O'Connor'; [email protected] Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2 On Apr 14, 2010, at 07:27 , Chris Dornan wrote: > Thanks very much Corey -- your suspicion is very well founded, and of > course it neatly explains the peculiar behaviour. It looks as if exec > has obviously been modified on RHEL and friends to refuse to execute > anything in /tmp. Unlikely that exec has been modified. SELinux and "noexec" in the fstab are the most likely causes. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] [email protected] system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] [email protected] electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
