From owner-freebsd-ports Mon Mar 13 2:17:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail.petersen.net (mail.petersen.net [63.65.211.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B56F037B558; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 02:17:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from w8sdz@mail.petersen.net) Received: (from w8sdz@localhost) by mail.petersen.net (8.10.0/8.10.0/kbp) id ; Mon, 13 Mar 2000 05:16:43 -0500 (EST) Subject: Problems with ELM 2.4ME+ PL68 (25) To: ache@FreeBSD.org Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 05:16:43 -0500 (EST) Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org From: Keith Petersen Message-Id: <20000313051643.w8sdz@Simtel.Net> Organization: Simtel (tm), Simtel.Net (sm) X-URL: http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/ X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I just installed ELM 2.4ME+ PL68 (25) from the ports collection on FreeBSD 3.3-RELEASE. There are three problems. 1) Elm probably should not be installed setgid under this operating system. Doing so causes elm to ignore the user's "$HOME/.termcap" file if it exists. Setting /var/mail to chmod 1777 allows elm to run as the user. 2) The "frm" program fails if /var/mail is not chmod 1777 because it tries to create a lockfile there. 3) Using the "o" command to set options, after changing an option and trying to save the new elmrc file using the ">" command, elm aborts with a segmentation error, truncating the elmrc file and leaving /tmp/mbox.username. These problems may have been fixed in later updates of elm. The latest at http://www.ozone.fmi.fi/KEH/ is now Elm 2.4ME+ PL72 (25), which is four revisions newer than the current port. I hope this information has been helpful. It was meant to be constructive feedback, not criticism. Keith -- Keith Petersen, Simtel.Net Content Manager Internet: w8sdz@Simtel.Net http://www.simtel.net/simtel.net/ Uucp: uunet!simtel.net!w8sdz ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message