VERBOSE and "warning: Insecure world writable dir..."

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1

Hello,

  I've just got very popular -- as I guess from google hits -- warning
about insecure dir when I run something like this
      puts %x{bzip2 -9 #{s}}

where s is file to compress.

  I found many 'solutions' by changing the access to directories to
satisfy ruby, I don't want to do this but just turn *this* warning
off. I found the answer -- setting $VERBOSE to nil works great,
however I guess it shuts down all warnings.

  So how can I turn off this one and only type of warning? And I don't
want to mess with my system settings, so please do not discuss this
subject.

  Thanks in advance for help,
have a nice day
bye

···

--
Maciej "MACiAS" Pilichowski http://bantu.fm.interia.pl/

2

$VERBOSE = nil

or

ruby -W0 a.rb

-a

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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Maciej Pilichowski wrote:

Hello,

I've just got very popular -- as I guess from google hits -- warning
about insecure dir when I run something like this
     puts %x{bzip2 -9 #{s}}

where s is file to compress.

I found many 'solutions' by changing the access to directories to
satisfy ruby, I don't want to do this but just turn *this* warning
off. I found the answer -- setting $VERBOSE to nil works great,
however I guess it shuts down all warnings.

So how can I turn off this one and only type of warning? And I don't
want to mess with my system settings, so please do not discuss this
subject.

Thanks in advance for help,
have a nice day

--
my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness. -- the dalai lama

3

Maciej Pilichowski wrote:

  I've just got very popular -- as I guess from google hits -- warning
about insecure dir when I run something like this
      puts %x{bzip2 -9 #{s}}
where s is file to compress.

  I found many 'solutions' by changing the access to directories to
satisfy ruby, I don't want to do this but just turn *this* warning
off. I found the answer -- setting $VERBOSE to nil works great,
however I guess it shuts down all warnings.

There are also other answers, if you continue Googling. The first page
of google hits for that phrase includes both a patch to 1.8.5 as well
as several mentions of changing the $PATH.

4

Yes, indeed, I was curious how to set the variable to nil, gee...
Please, read my question -- my problem is I want to turn off only
specific warnings, not all.

have a nice day
bye

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On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:49:51 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

I found the answer -- setting $VERBOSE to nil works great

$VERBOSE = nil

--
Maciej "MACiAS" Pilichowski http://bantu.fm.interia.pl/

5

then you have the answer

   def quietly
     v = $VERBOSE
     $VERBOSE = nil
     yield
   ensure
     $VERBOSE = v
   end

   quietly do
     what_you_were_doing_before
   end

it's as good as it gets.

-a

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On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Maciej Pilichowski wrote:

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:49:51 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

I found the answer -- setting $VERBOSE to nil works great

$VERBOSE = nil

Yes, indeed, I was curious how to set the variable to nil, gee...
Please, read my question -- my problem is I want to turn off only
specific warnings, not all.

have a nice day

--
my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness. -- the dalai lama

6

google is your friend

   http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/cddd8d3931ba6365/5c2b4ed2c385128d?lnk=gst&q=VERBOSE+world+writable+directory&rnum=1#5c2b4ed2c385128d

   http://groups-beta.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/browse_thread/thread/3c64870ac4241bd7/11da27e099da1100?lnk=gst&q=VERBOSE+world+writable+directory&rnum=2#11da27e099da1100

included is a patch by eric hodel which does what you desire.

-a

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On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Maciej Pilichowski wrote:

On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:49:51 +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

I found the answer -- setting $VERBOSE to nil works great

$VERBOSE = nil

Yes, indeed, I was curious how to set the variable to nil, gee...
Please, read my question -- my problem is I want to turn off only
specific warnings, not all.

--
my religion is very simple. my religion is kindness. -- the dalai lama

7

Hmm. Is $VERBOSE thread-local?

David Vallner

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ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:

then you have the answer

  def quietly
    v = $VERBOSE
    $VERBOSE = nil
    yield
  ensure
    $VERBOSE = v
  end

  quietly do
    what_you_were_doing_before
  end