Date: Sun, 21 May 1995 16:56:27 +0300 (EET DST) From: Tanel Kuusk <tanel@juku.li.ttu.ee> To: Alex Tang <altitude@umich.edu> Cc: Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: iScreen seg faults Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.950521165333.20824A-100000@juku.li.ttu.ee> In-Reply-To: <199505182155.RAA24876@petrified.cic.net>
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On Thu, 18 May 1995, Alex Tang wrote: > I found the same problem witn 2.0R. I also found it ONLY happened when > screen was installed as setuid root. I fixed (hacked) mine by not making > /usr/loca/bin/screen not setuid root. > > It's ugly, but it works. Does anyone REALLY know what's wrong?? I guess there's something wrong with the UTMP file processing then. If screen is setuid root, it tries to remove its parent shell from utmp and write all its windows there. If screen is not setuid root, it probably can't write utmp and all utmp processing is skipped during execution. Tanel
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