From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 3 9:37:27 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wopr.caltech.edu (wopr.caltech.edu [131.215.102.114]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 404E637B43C for ; Thu, 3 May 2001 09:37:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph@wopr.caltech.edu) Received: (from mph@localhost) by wopr.caltech.edu (8.11.3/8.11.0) id f43GbJo09846; Thu, 3 May 2001 09:37:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mph) Date: Thu, 3 May 2001 09:37:19 -0700 From: Matthew Hunt To: Chris Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG, J Ramos Subject: Re: Minicom alternatives Message-ID: <20010503093719.B9059@wopr.caltech.edu> References: <3AF078D0.ADA3F795@nc.rr.com> <003b01c0d391$72d8bfa0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> <20010503095759.B4830@daemon.kingsqueak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010503095759.B4830@daemon.kingsqueak.org>; from kingsqueak@kingsqueak.org on Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:57:59AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, May 03, 2001 at 09:57:59AM -0400, Chris wrote: > /usr/ports/comms/minicom > You mean 'that' minicom? I'm sure he does, but... wopr:/usr/ports/comms/minicom$ grep FORBIDDEN Makefile FORBIDDEN= "Local exploit yielding setuid uucp" It's there, but it's FORBIDDEN due to a security bug. If you don't care and want to live dangerously, comment out the FORBIDDEN line. I haven't needed a modem terminal program in years, but I used to use minicom and Seyon. You might try the latter. It's an X program, though. -- Matthew Hunt * UNIX is a lever for the http://www.pobox.com/~mph/ * intellect. -J.R. Mashey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message