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Date:      Sat, 7 Apr 2001 13:54:23 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com>
To:        Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>, steve@Watt.COM
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: SOLVED: Neither aterm, eterm, nor rxvt can su to root in 4.3
Message-ID:  <20010407205423.41681.qmail@web13202.mail.yahoo.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20010407130550.doconnor@gsoft.com.au>

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I also see the problem occuring in a fresh install of
4.3RC2 off the cdrom, as well as 5.0-CURRENT, after
installing rxvt from ports in both cases.

Perhaps there are build options in rxvt which would
help circumvent this?  Or perhaps not . . .

     Larry


--- Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> wrote:
> 
> On 06-Apr-2001 Steve Watt wrote:
> > >I have a fresh install of 4.3 here which exhibits
> the same problem. What
> > >version of X are you using?
> > >(both xterm and eterm exhibit it)
> >  Make sure you've rebuilt rxvt/xterm/whatever; I
> saw this once (on
> >  another OS) when the tty headers changed a wee
> tad.  A quick glance
> >  at the recent commits doesn't tell *me* anything
> that might have hit
> >  here, but one can never be 100% certain...
> 
> I don't think this is the case..
> I am seeing this problem after installing FreeBSD
> 4.3 and then building
> everything on this machine (ie rxvt, xterm etc).
> 
> ---
> Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer
> for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au
> "The nice thing about standards is that there
> are so many of them to choose from."
>   -- Andrew Tanenbaum
> 
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