On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Erik Veenstra wrote: > Found in ChangeLog-1.8.3: > > Wed Sep 21 02:44:09 2005 Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz / ruby-lang.org> > file.c (path_check_0): disallow sticky world writable directory in PATH (and $LOAD_PATH). [ruby-dev:27226] > > Why is this changed in Ruby 1.8.3? > > And how can I work around this check? It's annyoing... $VERBOSE = nil there are a few other annyoing warnings, and some good ones, that this shuts up. in my opinion the system level and language level warnings should be controlled differently for this reason. i work in a collaborative laboratory so you can imagine we have thousands of group writable directories. i can have every single one of my shared programs spew warnings when run (hardly confidence inspiring) so i simply must turn $VERBOSE off ;-( -a -- =============================================================================== | ara [dot] t [dot] howard [at] noaa [dot] gov | all happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy. all misery | comes from the desire for oneself to be happy. | -- bodhicaryavatara ===============================================================================