new setuid error

Ryan Schmidt ryandesign at macports.org
Sun Aug 12 11:36:53 PDT 2012


On Aug 12, 2012, at 13:28, Chris Jones <jonesc at hep.phy.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>>> $sudo port selfupdate
>>> dyld: DYLD_ environment variables being ignored because main executable (/usr/bin/sudo) is setuid or setgid
>> 
>> This message lets you know that you have set DYLD_ environment variables, and that they are being ignored. It's usually an error to set DYLD_ environment variables at all anyway, so you might want to consider removing them from your environment.
> 
> This is a new 'feature' in 10.8, and is printed even if the user doesn't have any DYLB_<X> environment variables. I don't, and I also get this message. A bit annoying. Hopefully Apple will address it in a future update.

Are you sure? What's the output of:

env | grep DY

I am on Mountain Lion and I don't see this warning, nor have I heard anyone else report it.




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