On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:34:08 +0100, Mats <netbsd@comhem.se> wrote:

> Hi
> I have set up thttpd in a chrooted area under NetBSD 3.0.1. It
> works perfect and I also succeded to install a shell (sh) in the
> chrooted area. I did like this -
> The chrooted area is in /home/www.
> # cd /home/www
> # mkdir bin 
> # cp /bin/sh bin
> # ldd bin/sh
> And that gave me the directorys and files needed by sh. I tried
> an easy file in /home/www/cgi-bin and it worked perfect.
> 
> Then I wanted to set up perl in /home/www. I did the same thing
> and a simple program worked in /home/www/cgi-bin, at least when I
> was root. But thttpd can't run it. :-(
> Not even when I chmod 777 program.pl. I have also tried with .cgi
> at the end.
>  
> I will look over my chmods and chowns to see if I have missed
> something but it doesn't seemed to be the problem. Is there some
> info somewhere about perl in a chrooted area?
> 
Do you get an error message?  Try using the 'chroot' command to run some
script in that subtree and see what it prints. 


		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb