Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2.6 Download problems

[Hiram Lester, Jr.]

On Mon, 24 Feb 1997, Wayne Buttles wrote:

> >     Lynx was working with Rsh on an older version (lynx 2.2), 
> > then I upgraded to 2.4, and this was when my download 
> > problems started, everyone advised me then to upgrade to 2.6.
> > 
> >     Yes, Lynx is running on the same machine that I am downloading 
> > too.  I am running Lynx on a Dec Alpha using Digital Unix 4.0B.
> > 
> 
> It sounds like just a path/security problem.  I don't know anything about
> rsh, but when the download is finished in Lynx the standard selection uses
> /bin/cp on /tmp/Lxxxxx.xxx to copy it to your desired location.  Maybe
> /bin/cp won't run with rsh...  You can use the -trace feature to figure
> out what is going on, but I don't know how to pipe stderr with rsh :-)  In
> bash it would be:
> 
> lynx http://download.com/file -trace 2>~/trace_output
> 
> The 2> pipes just errors to a given file.

Another excerpt from the man page for rsh:

      Redirection of output is not allowed in the restricted shell.

:(  I had a fun time with this here since they decided to put sendmail in
a restricted shell.  They installed procmail systemwide, but the output
goes to the console, and root asked me to see if I could get rid of it,
and I tried > /dev/null, and my mail wasn't being delivered.  I finally
tracked it to the above... <sigh>

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