From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2006-09-01T10:17:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Insecure word writable dir?

Hi,

In message "Re: Insecure word writable dir?"
    on Fri, 1 Sep 2006 05:18:32 +0900, "Joe Van Dyk" <joevandyk@gmail.com> writes:

|When I exec another program from inside Ruby, I get this warning:
|"warning: Insecure world writable dir /tmp, mode 041777"
|
|Here's /tmp
|drwxrwxrwt   17 root     root         4096 Aug 31 13:16 /tmp/
|
|Any ideas?  It's sort of annoying.  I thought /tmp had to be world writable.

That means you have world writable directory in your load path ($PATH)
when you call external program (probably by using "system").  If you
know what you are doing, you can shut the warning up by

$VERBOSE=nil

as Ara told in [ruby-talk:211832].

							matz.