Re: LYNX-DEV Lynx 2.6 Download problems

[Wayne Buttles]

On 25 Feb 1997, Sara Bradley wrote:

> > 
> > On 24 Feb 1997, Sara Bradley wrote:
> > 
> > >     I am unable to download via Lynx to my local drive if I am using 
> > > Rsh shell.  Everything looks as if it is working when I save to disk - 
> > > no error messages, however, the downloaded file is no where to be 
> > > found! 
> > >     If I use any other shell (ksh) the download works fine. 
> > >     
>     Lynx was working with Rsh on an older version (lynx 2.2), 
> then I upgraded to 2.4, and this was when my download 
> problems started, everyone advised me then to upgrade to 2.6.
> 
>     Yes, Lynx is running on the same machine that I am downloading 
> too.  I am running Lynx on a Dec Alpha using Digital Unix 4.0B.
> 

It sounds like just a path/security problem.  I don't know anything about
rsh, but when the download is finished in Lynx the standard selection uses
/bin/cp on /tmp/Lxxxxx.xxx to copy it to your desired location.  Maybe
/bin/cp won't run with rsh...  You can use the -trace feature to figure
out what is going on, but I don't know how to pipe stderr with rsh :-)  In
bash it would be:

lynx http://download.com/file -trace 2>~/trace_output

The 2> pipes just errors to a given file.

Wayne

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