Re: [Expectperl-discuss] Program won't work on new system

[Austin S. <te...@gb...>]

On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 09:44:12AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> I have a program that uses Expect.  Everything has been working fine while I 
> have been running it on my own system (which is part of a lan).
> 
> I am preparing a system that will go in a client's office.  It's running 
> Mandrake 8.2 and I set the security level at Paranoid (I don't want to be the 
> one at fault if anything happens to their lan!).  I copied the program over 
> to their system (using sneaker-net and a floppy).  I had to go in as root to 
> compile and add all the modules (Expect, Stty, Pty).  Then I changed the 
> permissions on the perl library files for global read.  Now when I run the 
> program as root, it works, but when I run it as a "normal" user, I get 
> "not-found" errors (exact text included at bottom).  I've made sure the 
> stty.* and Tty* files have had their permissions changed (same with Expect), 
> so they can be read by all.
> 
> What am I not doing?  Is there another file I need to change the permissions 
> on?  I would think so, since root has no problem running this program.
> 
> Thanks!
> 

	If I had to guess I'd say that your root user probably has a paranoid
umask of 077 or similar. I would check the permissions of
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/ and make sure everything is readable by other,
or just run a blanket chmod -R og+rx /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/. That should
be safe unless you've installed modules with embedded passwords or other
such silliness.

	Austin