Hi Eyal, yes, unfortunately 4.5.0 is a unstable release. Sorry for that. I will recommend to stay on 4.4.0.
Broken API and some other problems are fixed already in git and we're going to release 4.5.1 in (about) 2 weeks. Cheers, Alex On Fri, Feb 3, 2017 at 4:47 AM, Eyal Lebedinsky <scr...@eyal.emu.id.au> wrote: > I run fedora 24. > > A day ago I did a 'dnf update' and received a new screen > Package screen.x86_64 4.5.0-1.fc24 will be an upgrade > Nothing worth noticing - or so I thought. > > The command arguments changed. > > I have scripts that use '-L' to enable logging. > ... -L -fn ... > The new program takes the following argument as a logfile name. > This is new, there used to be no such file name. This leads to an error > -L logfile name can not start with - > Now I have to modify all of my scripts? > > I removed the '-L' (it was already included in a screenrc file). > $ screen -c "/etc/screenrc-1" ... > logfile "/data/logs/screen.log" > log on > No log created. > > I then added the '-L' to the end of the command line and it accepted it. > $ screen ... -L > No log created. > > I then added the log file name too as in '-L "/data/logs/screen.log"'. > A log was created, but it overwrote the (old log) rather than append to it. > > I should say that it all used to work just fine for a long while. > > Am I missing something or did things really change that much? > > TIA > > -- > Eyal Lebedinsky (scr...@eyal.emu.id.au) > > _______________________________________________ > screen-users mailing list > screen-users@gnu.org > https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users _______________________________________________ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/screen-users
