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From: Kenneth Tindle <ktindle@uky.edu> Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 14:11:02 -0400 Subject: PPR: PPR 1.51 release errata David, The new release of PPR has two bugs that bit me. Number One: the Perl 5.8.0 taint checks are still growling. To wit: ppop not ready: at /usr/lib/ppr/lib/PPR/PPOP.pm line 191 is spit out by show_queues.cgi. I didn't check, but I'll bet that's the open2() call blowing up because it is tainted. Number Two: In the installation tarball, off its unpack root, is the directory 'z_install_begin'. In file 'install_create_accounts.sh', the COMMENT variable is loaded with a string with embedded spaces. Later, this is used in a useradd command directly with the '-c' switch. Nope. This will blow up useradd, as you must wrap a string with embedded spaces in double quotation marks so useradd can parse it. I simply substituted dashes for the embedded spaces, and then edited /etc/passwd directly to put the spaces back after installation. But this will stop the install cold if you don't poke around, as I had to do. Well, assuming you don't have the ppr and pprwww users already made. It is certainly worth mentioning- this is Red Hat Linux 9. Yeah, a bit late mentioning this, but better late than never.