# VERBOSE and "warning: Insecure world writable dir..." **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [November 7, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verbose-and-warning-insecure-world-writable-dir/74900 "2006-11-07T11:00:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madiba)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:00am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verbose-and-warning-insecure-world-writable-dir/74900/1 "2006-11-07T11:00:55Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madiba)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verbose-and-warning-insecure-world-writable-dir/74900/2 "2006-11-07T11:01:25Z")
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Maciej P. wrote: > 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 $VERBOSE = nil or ruby -W0 a.rb -a ---
**Author:** ![madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madiba)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verbose-and-warning-insecure-world-writable-dir/74900/3 "2006-11-07T11:01:26Z")
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:49:51 +0900, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 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 bye ---
**Author:** ![madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madiba)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verbose-and-warning-insecure-world-writable-dir/74900/4 "2006-11-07T11:01:29Z")
Maciej P. 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. ---
**Author:** ![madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madiba)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verbose-and-warning-insecure-world-writable-dir/74900/5 "2006-11-07T11:01:32Z")
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Maciej P. wrote: > On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 23:49:51 +0900, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid 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. 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/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](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 ---
**Author:** ![madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madiba)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:02am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verbose-and-warning-insecure-world-writable-dir/74900/6 "2006-11-07T11:02:14Z")
removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > quietly do > what\_you\_were\_doing\_before > end Hmm. Is $VERBOSE thread-local? David V. ---
**Author:** ![madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/58956e/32.png) [@madiba](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/madiba)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 11:01am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/verbose-and-warning-insecure-world-writable-dir/74900/7 "2006-11-07T11:01:30Z")
On Sun, 5 Nov 2006, Maciej P. wrote: > have a nice day > 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