[Eug-lug] Linux- Mac OS X file exchange: This sounds right

Tue Aug 1 02:24:55 PDT 2006

On Mon, Jul 31, 2006 at 10:59:07PM -0700, Bob Miller wrote:
> Many distros ship without suidperl.  Gentoo has a USE flag to enable
> it which defaults to off.  Ubuntu ships with suidperl, but it doesn't
> have the setuid bit set.  Those are the distros I have handy just now.
> 
> That's probably more information than you wanted...

Debian used to have it in a separate package.  I guess probably nowadays
that's changed, based on how Ubuntu does things.