Bill, Thanks.
FYI: I had previously submitted a bug to the maintainer for the abort trap issue, but never heard back from the upstream maintainer. > On Jul 14, 2018, at 10:59 AM, Bill Cole > <macportsusers-20171...@billmail.scconsult.com> wrote: > > On 14 Jul 2018, at 2:09 (-0400), Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > >> rlogin, rsh, and I think rcp need to be setuid root, because they have to >> use privileged ports. But they were installed without the setuid root >> permission set (they worked normally after setting it by hand). >> >> Is there any reason that isn't set as part of installation? Granted it's not >> without downside, but someone that's using the old r-commands probably isn't >> too worried about that anyway. > > It looks like this is a bug in the inetutils config/build system. It selects > '/usr/bin/install' as the install tool, but does not verify what flavor of > 'install' that is, assuming that it will allow GNU 'install' argument > ordering. However, that's a BSD-heritage 'install' which does not handle > putting the source filename before options, and it breaks. Making things > worse, it is a breakage that inetutils is entirely unprepared for, because it > assumes that the only way 'install' can fail is a permissions problem. > > I've just submitted a bug to the GNU inetutils maintainer. > > > -- > Bill Cole > b...@scconsult.com or billc...@apache.org > (AKA @grumpybozo and many *@billmail.scconsult.com addresses) > Currently Seeking Steadier Work: https://linkedin.com/in/billcole Marius
