From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Sep 8 13:22:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-94-248-46.mmcable.com [24.94.248.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A075337B408 for ; Sat, 8 Sep 2001 13:22:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 57604 invoked by uid 100); 8 Sep 2001 20:22:42 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15258.32274.776165.943019@guru.mired.org> Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 15:22:42 -0500 To: "R. Lahaye" Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: minicom is forbidden ? In-Reply-To: <71122357@toto.iv> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG R. Lahaye types: > When I do a make in /usr/ports/comms/minicom, I get: > ===> minicom-1.83.1_2 is forbidden: Local exploit yielding setuid uucp. > What does that mean? That there's a security problem in the port. If you don't care, delete the "FORBIDDEN=" line in the Makefile, and just make it. > If minicom isn't available, what would be an alternative for setting > up a terminal that listens to the serial port ? tip is in the base system. > (My PC's serial port is connected via a null-modem-cable to another > FreeBSD PC that has no minitor/videocard and exports its console to > the serial port). That's the kind of thing I use tip for. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message