From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 17 1: 9:36 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from futuredomain.net (divine.futuredomain.net [209.17.177.160]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EAE3B1525F for ; Mon, 17 May 1999 01:09:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cengland@obscurity.org) Received: (qmail 29767 invoked from network); 17 May 1999 08:20:02 -0000 Received: from localhost (cengland@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 17 May 1999 08:20:02 -0000 Date: Mon, 17 May 1999 01:20:02 -0700 (PDT) From: Chris England X-Sender: cengland@divine To: matt Cc: notme , "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: running program over telnet 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 On Mon, 17 May 1999, matt wrote: > On Mon, 17 May 1999, Chris England wrote: > > [...] > > : screen will do this if the system is running it. If not, you can install > : it yourself. I don't think it _needs_ suid root privledges for your > : intent. > > AFAIK, screen is only SUID root so it can handle /tmp properly. it keeps > /tmp/screens chmod 755, then makes chmod 700 subdirs chowned to the user > that's running screen. You prolly will have to screw with the code a bit > so that screen doesn't try to use /tmp if you are installing it in your > home dir. > * $Id: config.h.in,v 1.12 1994/05/31 12:31:36 mlschroe Exp $ FAU (latest config.h) # define SOCKDIR "/tmp/screens" (line 63 I think) It's defined there, as well as a few other things that could use tweaking, but its relatively easy. cheers, -Chris England To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message