Re: just another taint question

The backticks `` are the old way, the new way to write it is qx//. And taint mode complains because you did not set $ENV{PATH} before trying to launch a program - and qx looks at $ENV{PATH}.

You should be able to make this work by adding the following line to your script:

$ENV{PATH} = '/usr/bin:/bin';

# or maybe even:
$ENV{PATH} = '';
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Re^2: just another taint question by isotope (Deacon) on Mar 31, 2005 at 21:27 UTC
taint mode complains because you did not set $ENV{PATH} No, it's complaining because `$server` is tainted. --isotope	[reply]
Re^2: just another taint question by tcf03 (Deacon) on Mar 31, 2005 at 19:11 UTC
I probably should have added what I have already tried. I do have the following code at the top of my script. `$ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin'; delete @ENV{qw(IFS CDPATH ENV BASH_ENV)};` [download]	[reply] [d/l]