Re: [Jailkit-users] [Fwd: Trouble with perl program on Gentoo Linux]

[Stephen Tallowitz]

Hello John,

I'm no perl specialist (I havent' done perl programs for years) but here is 
something I've noticed:
It's probably not enough to have File::Basename inside the jail. From your 
trace (thanks for supplying such a wealth of information) it seems that 
File::Basename depends on /bin/dirname, which - on a gentoo system - is part of 
the coreutils package and not of a Perl module or library. The important line 
in your *bad* trace is this one here:
fork(Can't exec "dirname": No such file or directory at ./test.pl line 12.)
So try copying /bin/dirname to the jail - you'll probably also need 
/bin/basename inside the jail. If you do have /bin/dirname in your jail, you 
might have to set or extend the environment variable for you shell to include 
the /bin directory. Hope this helps and please tell me if it works.

Cheers,
Stephen

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On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 21:46:45 +0100
Olivier Sessink wrote:
> I have no perl experience myself at all, so I find it really difficult
> to say anything useful about this. It might be that you need much more
> then just the perl executable in the jail, for example files from
> /usr/share ??
> 
> I'll forward the mail to the jailkit-users mailinglist, perhaps we have
> some perl experts there..?
> 
> Olivier
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: Trouble with perl program on Gentoo Linux
> Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2006 12:21:53 -0500
> From: John R Larsen <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: address@hidden
> To: address@hidden
> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am having trouble running a perl script in a jail.  I'm using
> jailkit-1.3 on a Gentoo Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r9
> kernel.  Jailkit seems to be configured correctly and I can connect
> using ssh into the jail account.  Other
> programs I have tried work fine such as vim, email, and even some other
> perl scripts.  I used "jk_init
> /home/jail perl" to copy my 5.8.6 perl into the jail.  I have done an
> strace on the program in the jail and
> compared it to an strace of the same program running outside the jail in
> a regular account.  I made a
> much simpler test case that demonstrates the same problem.  I have
> attached "test.pl",
> "test.pl.strace.good", and "test.pl.strace.bad".  The good and bad
> straces are from outside and inside the
> jail.
> 
> The issue is with the "fork" call.  For some reason fork is called with
> no parameters when run inside the
> jail.  I'm using the perl functions "basename" and "dirname" which are
> included with the "use
> File::Basename" line.  I've compared file trees for perl inside and
> outside the jail and they appear to be
> the same.  The File::Basename file is in both places.  Simpler perl
> programs that don't use fork seem to
> work.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks for your time,
> 
> John
> 
> _______________________________________________________
> John R Larsen <address@hidden>
> http://larsen-family.us
> 
> 

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