On 10/28/2010 12:59, Kris Moore wrote: > On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 02:30:03PM -0600, M. Warner Losh wrote: >> Greetings, >> >> I just spent a few days fighting ssh-agent. This normally trivial >> affair has taken far too long. After much head scratching, I've tracked >> the problem down. >> >> FreeBSD's /bin/sh behaves differently than other systems. The commands: >> sh -c export -p >> and >> sh -c "export -p" >> are treated differently. The trouble is that this dark corner of shell >> syntax is actually used in Xsession that's shipped with KDE4: >> >> */csh|*/tcsh) >> # [t]cshrc is always sourced automatically. >> # Note that sourcing csh.login after .cshrc is non-standard. >> xsess_tmp=`mktemp /tmp/xsess-env-XXXXXX` >> $SHELL -c "if (-f /etc/csh.login) source /etc/csh.login; if (-f >> ~/.login) source ~/.login; /bin/sh >> -c export -p>! $xsess_tmp" >> . $xsess_tmp >> rm -f $xsess_tmp >> ;; >> >> The obvious fix of single quoting the export -p command above appears to >> work for me. While I'm working with jilles@ to see if this difference >> is normal variation in the implementation of a POSIX shell, or a bug, we >> need a patch to the appropriate port so that we work correctly for users >> whose login shell is csh or tcsh. The effect of this bug is that no >> variables set in .login are visible to kde, which makes it impossible to >> do the normal thing of setting up the ssh-agent there (in some cases). >> >> I'm not entirely sure what the right port is, since I'm using PC-BSD 8.1 >> (Hubble Edition), so I thought I'd raise this issue here so that people >> can work on the issue, give me pointers, etc. I've cc'd Kris Moore who >> is the pc-bsd lead so he knows about the issue. >> >> Comments? >> >> Warner > I've gone ahead and fixed the Xsession we ship in PC-BSD, however > this won't correct it for FreeBSD KDE users. This file is generated > when the user runs "genkdmconf", and I confimed that it still produces the > broken Xsession. We'll need to get it fixed there for everybody :)
When do we run it? At build time? Or is it something that I'm supposed to run as an ordinary user? Warner _______________________________________________ kde-freebsd mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-freebsd See also http://freebsd.kde.org/ for latest information
