OpenEuphoria

Re: Linux broken + security risk

• Posted by Matt Lewis <matthewwalkerlewis at gmail.com> Jun 03, 2005
• 1033 views

Neil Fraser wrote:
> 
> Installed a brand new installation of Euphoria 2.5 on Debian (Sarge).
> All attempts to execute Euphoria generate the following:
> 
> /usr/local/euphoria/bin# ./exu
> Error opening terminal: xterm.
> 
> Exactly how to I debug this?  The previous version of Euphoria worked
> properly.
> 
> 
> Also, over a year ago I sent a private mail to the developers pointing out
> that their default Linux install leaves many of the files world-writable,
> files which are later executed.  This is a major security risk.  The response
> was "Thanks, I'll try to keep that in mind for the next release".
> 
> Guess they forgot.  Maybe a more public posting will help.
> 


In your .bashrc put in this line:

export TERM=ansi

Matt Lewis