Fix for CentOS “Can’t do setuid (cannot exec sperl)”

Posted on October 1st, 2007 in General,Linux System Administration,Programming by Brandon

If you are running a Perl script with the setuid bit, it actually runs a slightly modified version of Perl so that it is a bit more cautious. On a CentOS box, you need to install the ‘perl-suidperl’ package to get the necessary files installed. Otherwise you get an error like this:

[root@host bin]# ls -al myscript.pl
-rws--S--- 1 mail mail 1218 Oct  1 13:09 myscript.pl

[root@host bin]# ./myscript.pl
Can't do setuid (cannot exec sperl)
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  1. Apophys said,

    on November 18th, 2007 at 9:11 am

    Thank you for the tip ! I was blocked because of that.

  2. Andy Pallett said,

    on July 15th, 2008 at 5:49 am

    Thanks for this fix. It solved my issue with Apache running BackupPC perl Scripts :-)

  3. Nic said,

    on November 9th, 2010 at 7:25 am

    Thanks! This helped us get AWStats working again

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