Date: Tue, 13 Jun 1995 09:22:44 +1000 (EST) From: Simon Lai <sjlai@mac20.ct.monash.edu.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: screen-3.6.2 and 2.0.5-RELEASE Message-ID: <199506122322.JAA04337@mac20.ct.monash.edu.au>
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Hi,
Does anybody have this version of screen running under 2.0.5-RELEASE?
(486,16Mb RAM 256k cache, IDE 320 Mb, SMC8013E, Mach32 GUP, all ISA).
This hardware has been running 1.1 ever since it was released.
I installed the one from the packages-2.0 directory but that would not
work. I ftp'd 3.6.2 from my nearest gnu archive and compiled that and
got the same overall result but with some strangeness.
It would seem that when I execute it suid-root it doesn't work. Executing
it as a normal user, seems to work (some problem with terminal
emulation still). I pkg_delete'd the original screen package so I
don't *think* there are any screenrc type files sitting around.
Overall FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE has been great. It is not quite as solid
as 1.1.5.1 (I get weird reboots when running X), but the disk seems to
be a lot less busy and I don't have any of these weird pauses I used
to get with 1.1.5.1. X also starts a lot faster. I really can't
appreciate all the software technology behind this (such as UBC),
is there a book ?
Simon "I really should start my thesis" Lai
P.S. some sample output follows -
----- running the suid root screen --------------------------------------
sjlai sjlai/bin>which screen
/home/sjlai/bin/screen
/usr/local/bin/screen
./screen
sjlai sjlai/bin>ls -l =screen
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root bin 183441 Jun 12 12:52 /usr/local/bin/screen*
sjlai sjlai/bin>/usr/local/bin/screen
{just sits here at this point, ctrl-c to kill it, doesn't get as far
as making the socket in the /tmp/screens directory. sometimes it just
gets a SIGBUS and comes back to the shell. Other times the shell
gets control again, but there is a screen process in the background
chewing up all the CPU. Occassionally when that is killed the machine
reboots}
---- running non suid root screen --------------------------------------
[0]sjlai sjlai/bin>0* zsh 1- zsh
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
{It works now (having run /home/sjlai/bin/screen), but the terminal
emulation is screwed up. "0* zsh 1- zsh" usually appears briefly
on the last line after typing ctrl-a ctrl-w. TERM=xterm before running
screen, TERM=screen after running screen (as expected). Everything
else seems to work OK screen wise, eg vi.}
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