From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Apr 2 0:15:27 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in (theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in [144.16.71.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A521937B51A for ; Sun, 2 Apr 2000 00:15:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in) Received: (qmail 5968 invoked from network); 2 Apr 2000 08:15:06 -0000 Received: from theory8.physics.iisc.ernet.in (144.16.71.128) by theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in with SMTP; 2 Apr 2000 08:15:06 -0000 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 13:45:06 +0530 (IST) From: Rahul Siddharthan To: "Brian K . Walters" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Lynx forbidden In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > > The lynx port is marked forbidden due to security problems. > > > > > > There is no misunderstanding. > > > > > > If you want to open yourself (and your users) up to buffer overflows in > > > the code, you are more than welcome. > Try w3m -- /usr/ports/www/w3m > > If you must use lynx, you can probably compile it easily enough > without the help of the ports. Or rather, you can comment out the FORBIDDEN line in the port makefile. Sorry about that -- I missed the earlier mails. But I'd recommend w3m. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message