> > JV Hays wrote:
> >> After installing FreeBSD 7 under VMWare this
morning I see to my
> >> dismay there is no port available for the GNU
screen program
> >> (evidently there is/was a security flaw). What
do you guys
> >> recommend as an alternative?
> >>
> >> -JV Hays
> >>
> > I have screen installed on several of my systems,
and I've
> not noticed > any report from portaudit about there
being an
> outstanding security
> issue.
> >
> >
> > -- James L. Lauser
> > james jlauser.net
> > Owner, jlauser.net Hosting Services
> > http://jlauser.net/
> >
> >
> >
> I suspect an out of date ports tree for the original
poster.
> According
> to http://www
.freshports.org/sysutils/screen/ the last vuln
> related to
> version 4.0.2_4 which was replaced by 4.0.3 on 26 Oct
2006 05:27:46
>
> --
> Dan Langille
>
Thanks for the nudge in the right direction. The real reason
behind my post
is just ignorance of Free BSD. I don't use it often and I
installed it,
tried to run screen from the prompt, and then tried to
install it with the
one command I could remember: 'pkg_add -r', with these
results:
jh_freebsd# screen
screen: Command not found.
jh_freebsd#
jh_freebsd# pkg_add -r screen
Error: FTP Unable to get
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-re
lease/Latest/scr
een.tbz: File unavailable (e.g., file not found, no access)
pkg_add: unable to fetch
'ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-7.0-r
elease/Latest/sc
reen.tbz' by URL
jh_freebsd#
After getting all your posts, I dusted off my brain and
executed:
cd /usr/ports/sysutils/screen
make
make install
make clean
and screen is now installed and working on my system. I'm
still not quite
sure why the 'pkg_add -r' did not work, since this command
worked with a
couple of other packages. Oh well.
Thanks again for all the helpful hints.
-JV Hays
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