Re: [cobalt-users] Does the RaQ XTR support suid perl?

[josh <josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, May 29, 2002 at 02:57:19PM -0700, Bruce Timberlake wrote:
> > It would be nice if the default install of Perl were 5.6.1 but for now
> > I'm seeing if I can get by with 5.00503 as that's what's installed. I
> > upgraded once by accident and found that it really would take so much
> > effort that I should wait for Sun to upgrade.
> 
> Don't hold your breath for Perl upgrades on the older platforms
> (especially the ones like RaQ3/4/XTR that are more "hard wired" than
> Qube3/RaQ550)... :)

Funny, no one even mentioned that the XTR was an older platform when I
was buying it? It looked pretty much like the top of the line; the 550
only came out very recently.

> 
> What many end up doing is just installing "another" Perl someplace
> (e.g., /home/perl) and use that for all their own Perl stuff...

Is there a guide explaining how to this someplace. I have realized
that /opt (which is /home/opt) will work for local software
installs. I wold be happy with a second perl -- I suspect that 5.6.1
doesn't have my suidperl problem -- but how could I leave it so the
site, siteadmin, ~user, and webmail use the original and my RT install
and anything I do personally, use the new one. 


I believe the RT install asks which one to use; still
it is a little scary with programs that execute things as other users
as well as my own worrying about how to keep things straight. [I don't
want to accidently mess with the version of perl being used to handle
the web interface -- again] I would love to have a second instance of
PostgreSQL too; I do worry about stepping on the set up.

Actually, I almost wish they had configured and distributed them with
a second install of everything that gets tied up by the interface.

-- 
Josh Kuperman                       
josh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx