Perl throws an exception when my program attempts to save an excel spreadsheet via Spreadsheet::Excel::Simple::Save with the error message in the title. My program is not running with any setuid bits set, so I don't know why Perl was running in suid mode... I am running on Red Hat Linux with Perl 5.6.1.

I was running my script via the supervise program in the excellent daemontools package but even after manually running it, the problem still occurs.

The odd thing is it was running all day with no problem. I made a few changes to the program which had nothing to do with saving and then this error starting occuring. I looked through the config flags and noticed -Ddo_suid so I think I need to recompile Perl without that... but any input is appreciated. Compile flags below: 

config_args='-des -Doptimize=-O2 -march=i386 -mcpu=i686 -Dcc=gcc -Dcf_
+by=Red Hat, Inc. -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Dinstallprefix=/usr -Dprefix=/us
+r -Darchname=i386-linux -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dsiteprefix=/usr -Uuseth
+reads -Uuseithreads -Uuselargefiles -Dd_dosuid -Dd_semctl_semun -Di_d
+b -Di_ndbm -Di_gdbm -Di_shadow -Di_syslog -Dman3ext=3pm

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In reply to The setuid emulator in suidperl decided you were up to no good by princepawn

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