Install difficulty, Linux Mint 18.3: "Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH}"

[dirtbirb]

Forgive me if I'm missing anything important, I'm definitely a noob in this stuff!

I'm trying to follow the directions here, on Linux Mint 18.3, but on "service zoneminder start" (step 7), I get the following:

"Job for zoneminder.service failed because the control process exited with error code. See "systemctl status zoneminder.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details."

The systemctl command gives the following (emphasis mine):

● zoneminder.service - ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-07-25 16:17:17 CDT; 8s ago Process: 23773 ExecStart=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start (code=exited, status=2)

Jul 25 16:17:17 carme systemd[1]: Starting ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system... Jul 25 16:17:17 carme zmpkg.pl[23773]: Insecure directory in $ENV{PATH} while running with -T switch at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder/Memory.pm line 138. Jul 25 16:17:17 carme zmpkg.pl[23773]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder.pm line 37. Jul 25 16:17:17 carme zmpkg.pl[23773]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/share/perl5/ZoneMinder.pm line 37. Jul 25 16:17:17 carme zmpkg.pl[23773]: Compilation failed in require at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 48. Jul 25 16:17:17 carme zmpkg.pl[23773]: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl line 48. Jul 25 16:17:17 carme systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=2 Jul 25 16:17:17 carme systemd[1]: Failed to start ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system. Jul 25 16:17:17 carme systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 25 16:17:17 carme systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

(Edit: This paragraph has been undone, see first comment) I took a look at zmpkg.pl, and tried replacing the architecture detection chunk with $arch = 64; Whether that's correct or not, it let things continue, and found more "insecure directories" in other files. After I was done "fixing" all of them (probably breaking them in the process), it still fails, but the systemctl output has no information:

● zoneminder.service - ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/zoneminder.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Wed 2018-07-25 16:04:01 CDT; 1s ago Process: 1523 ExecStart=/usr/bin/zmpkg.pl start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Jul 25 16:04:01 carme systemd[1]: Starting ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system... Jul 25 16:04:01 carme zmpkg[1523]: INF [Sanity checking States table...] Jul 25 16:04:01 carme zmpkg[1523]: INF [Command: start] Jul 25 16:04:01 carme systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1 Jul 25 16:04:01 carme systemd[1]: Failed to start ZoneMinder CCTV recording and surveillance system. Jul 25 16:04:01 carme systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Unit entered failed state. Jul 25 16:04:01 carme systemd[1]: zoneminder.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.

I'm guessing that my "fixes" just broke stuff, but I was hoping to at least get some info from it. What's the right way to fix this? As a side note, I notice that the guide I'm following mentions php5 but the guide ends up installing php7, if that's an issue.

Thank you!

[dirtbirb]

Update:

I learned about taint checking, undid my previous edits, and just removed "T" from the #! line at the top of /usr/bin/zmdc.pl and /usr/bin/zmpkg.pl. Now the service starts just fine.

I'm leaving the issue open because this seems like a workaround that someone would be upset about, but feel free to close it if it's uninteresting!

[connortechnology]

Can you look into something for me? do

ls -l /bin

and

ls -l /bin/uname

[dirtbirb]

Done: https://pastebin.com/BD3VxyQx

[dirtbirb]

Update: syslog reported that other .pl scripts (zmwatch, zmaudit, etc) were also exiting abnormally, so I went through /usr/bin and removed the T from the #! line at the top of all zm****.pl files. The messages went away.

Basically taint checking is somehow broken on my system, dunno what the proper response is.

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