Re: [Oorexx-devel] Time for the *ix users to pitch in.

2018-12-24 Thread Rick McGuire
Using getpwuid() would be better. Based on the code that was there before, I was assuming getuid() actually returned the username...guess I should have looked it up first. Rick On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 6:40 PM Erich Steinböck wrote: > With a few typos fixed, this seems to work as expected, also

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Time for the *ix users to pitch in.

2018-12-24 Thread Erich Steinböck
With a few typos fixed, this seems to work as expected, also in the discussed sudo scenario. also includes the login name in the file names > getuid() returns the id, not the name, so I had changed the %s to %d in the snprintf's I assume getting the name will require getpwuid() - if we want the na

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel
Probably because nobody ever tried At my first attempt I got som errors for missing DEFINES I will look into it E > On 24 Dec 2018, at 20:49, Gil Barmwater wrote: > > Can someone help me remember why FreeBSD is not an ooRexx-supported > configuration? Thanks! > ___

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Jack Woehr
On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 12:49 PM Gil Barmwater wrote: > Can someone help me remember why FreeBSD is not an ooRexx-supported > configuration? Thanks! > > Wasn't it pthreads? -- Jack Woehr Absolute Performance, Inc. 12303 Airport Way, Suite 100 Broomfield, CO 80021 NON-DISCLOSURE NOTICE: This

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Gil Barmwater
Can someone help me remember why FreeBSD is not an ooRexx-supported configuration?  Thanks! On 12/24/2018 10:45 AM, Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel wrote: So far, all I've gotten is suggestions for additional stuff to install. So far you have got suggestion from people with much more exp

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings Rick, Rick McGuire wrote: Yep, I'm already regretting this. So far, all I've gotten is suggestions for additional stuff to install. I'm already putting this effort on the shelf. VirtualBox PUEL is really nice. Be sure to install the corresponding extension pack. That is a separ

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Rick McGuire
I have already installed Virtual Box. I am NOT going to play this game of "just install this one more thing" or "you should have installed X instead of Y" just so I can do a compile of ooRexx. I grew tired of it years ago, I'm not going to start it again. Rick On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 10:41 AM Ren

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Enrico Sorichetti via Oorexx-devel
> So far, all I've gotten is suggestions for additional stuff to install. So far you have got suggestion from people with much more experience than you on the subject Who are trying to make things easier for you Before suggesting the use of vagrant I wanted to make an experiment Starting from

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread René Jansen
With Docker you will not need Virtual Box. René. > On 24 Dec 2018, at 10:46, Rick McGuire wrote: > > Yep, I'm already regretting this. So far, all I've gotten is suggestions for > additional stuff to install. I'm already putting this effort on the shelf. > > Rick > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Rick McGuire
Yep, I'm already regretting this. So far, all I've gotten is suggestions for additional stuff to install. I'm already putting this effort on the shelf. Rick On Mon, Dec 24, 2018 at 9:38 AM Michael Lueck wrote: > Greetings Rick, > > Rick McGuire wrote: > > I'll probably end up regretting this, b

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Michael Lueck
Greetings Rick, Rick McGuire wrote: I'll probably end up regretting this, but I finally broke down and installed VirtualBox on my new laptop. Any suggestions on which distro I should use for ooRexx development? (duck and run!). 1) LTS release of Ubuntu / Xubuntu. 18.04 is the newest LTS rel

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread rvjan...@xs4all.nl
Hi Rick, Red Hat and Ubuntu are often used. The free version of Red Hat is called Centos. Vagrant makes Virtualbox rather painless; I haved moved on to Docker, however, which makes running all kinds of OS containers a breeze. If it is a new laptop, chances are that the new Docker app for Windows

[Oorexx-devel] Setting up VirtualBox

2018-12-24 Thread Rick McGuire
I'll probably end up regretting this, but I finally broke down and installed VirtualBox on my new laptop. Any suggestions on which distro I should use for ooRexx development? (duck and run!). I want something easy to install and configure for doing development. My past experience with doing this ha

Re: [Oorexx-devel] Time for the *ix users to pitch in.

2018-12-24 Thread Rick McGuire
Ok, from what Bob Martin posted, it sounds like the www-data login does not have XDG variables set and also does not have write access to the home directory. As others have said, using the home directory is probably a bad idea because it could be network-mounted and using it would lock out users on