From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Nov 12 18:58:56 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from rucus.ru.ac.za (rucus.ru.ac.za [146.231.29.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EEFDB37B479 for ; Sun, 12 Nov 2000 18:58:51 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 77497 invoked by uid 1003); 13 Nov 2000 02:58:47 -0000 Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 04:58:47 +0200 From: Neil Blakey-Milner To: Chris Byrnes Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: screen Message-ID: <20001113045847.A77226@mithrandr.moria.org> References: <200011120210.UAA39147@ns1.highstability.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <200011120210.UAA39147@ns1.highstability.com>; from chrisb@ns1.highstability.com on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 08:10:03PM -0600 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.1-STABLE i386 X-URL: http://mithrandr.moria.org/nbm/ Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat 2000-11-11 (20:10), Chris Byrnes wrote: > is screen +s by default out of ports for a reason? > > [please cc me in replies, not subscribed.] Yes. It needs to be +s to play with the [uw]tmp files to show you're logged in. It's a hard decision as to whether we should disable this by default - most people prefer the way screen works with it on (except, perhaps, when there's a root compromise waiting to happen. *grin*) Neil -- Neil Blakey-Milner nbm@mithrandr.moria.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message