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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@trincoll.edu>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 13:47:18 -0400
Subject: PPR: Re: PPR 1.51 release errata II

Kenneth Tindle wrote:
> OK, now I have checked, and it is NOT taint this time.
> 
> It looks like a new version of 'ppop' is compiled that has a different
> standard output in machine-readable mode than PPOP.pm expects.  It
> fails to satisfy the test regular expression, so it appears to the
> Perl module that ppop is not sane.

What does it output?  I get:

$ ppop -M
*READY  1.51

> The version of PPOP.pm and the ppop executable must be matched.  On
> my system, the www admin system is unable to launch ppop for any purpose
> whatsoever, at the moment.

It actually doesn't care about the version number.  It just wants to see 
the *READY line so that it knows that ppop really started up.

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