RE: [Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2

2010-04-14 Thread Chris Dornan
... Chris -Original Message- From: Corey O'Connor [mailto:coreyocon...@gmail.com] Sent: 13 April 2010 2:37 AM To: Chris Dornan Cc: Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2 I suspect CentOS might disable execute permissions

Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2

2010-04-14 Thread Lars Viklund
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 06:27:53AM -0500, Chris Dornan wrote: Thanks very much Corey -- your suspicion is very well founded, and of course it neatly explains the peculiar behaviour. It looks as if exec has obviously been modified on RHEL and friends to refuse to execute anything in /tmp. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2

2010-04-14 Thread Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH
On Apr 14, 2010, at 07:27 , Chris Dornan wrote: Thanks very much Corey -- your suspicion is very well founded, and of course it neatly explains the peculiar behaviour. It looks as if exec has obviously been modified on RHEL and friends to refuse to execute anything in /tmp. Unlikely that

RE: [Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2

2010-04-14 Thread Chris Dornan
: [Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2 On Apr 14, 2010, at 07:27 , Chris Dornan wrote: Thanks very much Corey -- your suspicion is very well founded, and of course it neatly explains the peculiar behaviour. It looks as if exec has obviously been modified on RHEL

Re: [Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2

2010-04-13 Thread Corey O'Connor
I suspect CentOS might disable execute permissions on anything under /tmp. To verify this just try creating a simple sh script under /tmp and executing it directly with ./test.sh. -Corey O'Connor On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 5:05 AM, Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: Hi, I am trying to

[Haskell-cafe] problem getting cabal-install to work on CentOS 5.2

2010-04-12 Thread Chris Dornan
Hi, I am trying to install cabal-install 0.8.2 with GHC 6.12.1 on a CentOS 5.2 system and am running up against a 'ExitFailure 127' error. I can download the package and run 'cabal install' inside the package directory and all will be fine, but if I let cabal download and install the