Bug 430508

Summary:	lynx.cfg: specify TELNET_PATH etc. properly
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dmitry Butskoy <dmitry>
Component:	lynx	Assignee:	Jiri Moskovcak <jmoskovc>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	7	CC:	dfediuck
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Fixed In Version:	2.8.6-5.fc7	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Dmitry Butskoy 2008-01-28 15:28:17 UTC

For URLs such "telnet://", "rlogin://" etc, Lynx uses TELNET_PATH, RLOGIN_PATH
and so on configuration options.

By default, when such options is not set, Lynx uses compiled-in ones.

In the earlier releases, Lynx caught just the first suitable telnet at the build
machine (usually /usr/kerberos/bin/telnet). Now, when building performs in the
clear "mock" environment, there is no any telnet, hence Lynx knows nothing about
it and friends...

In other words, after upgrading from FC5 to F7, the "telnet://" URLs no more
work under Lynx, because of the reason described above.

To solve this issue, please, add "TELNET_PATH:telnet" (and may be similar for
another protocols) into default /etc/lynx.cfg config file.

Comment 1 Jiri Moskovcak 2008-01-29 09:21:14 UTC

Hi,
are you sure you have telnet on your machine? When I try to use URL telnet://.. 
it works even thought I don't have TELNET_PATH set in lynx.cfg.

Jirka

Comment 2 Jiri Moskovcak 2008-01-29 10:00:15 UTC

I had modified rpm on my machine installed and as I found out you're right, it 
doesn't work without TELNET_PATH, but I'm not sure if I should modify the cfg 
file that way, I think this should be up to user to set this path ...

Comment 3 Dmitry Butskoy 2008-01-29 13:36:48 UTC

> up to user to set this path

Nope.

Actually, Lynx undestands the PATH environment variable. Hence it catch the
first suitable telnet according to the PATH (either /usr/kerberos/bin/telnet, or
/usr/bin/telnet, or even /usr/local/bin/telnet). Thus, for default installation,
we may specify just the short "telnet" without the full path.

The same is true for another similar externals, like "rlogin" etc.

I think all the list (around commented TELNET_PATH in the lynx.cfg) should be
inspected for missing default values, and then lynx.cfg patched to set the
default values for them (where applicable) ...

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2008-01-30 15:06:55 UTC

lynx-2.8.6-10.fc8 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 8

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2008-01-30 15:59:30 UTC

lynx-2.8.6-5.fc7 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 7

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2008-02-02 09:00:37 UTC

lynx-2.8.6-5.fc7 has been pushed to the Fedora 7 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2008-02-02 09:02:48 UTC

lynx-2.8.6-10.fc8 has been pushed to the Fedora 8 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.