Re: [Lynx-dev] Re: session→syslog?!

[Thorsten Glaser]

Thomas Dickey dixit:

> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Atsuhito Kohda wrote:

>> On Sun, 14 Nov 2010 09:22:23 +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:

>>> It is the default in the Debian version enabled in 2.8.6-5
>>> at Mon, 18 Oct 2004. AFAIK grml uses the Debian package.

Yes, it does. Setting -cfg=* also seems to be a Debian thing;
AFAICS Tom told them already in 1999 that setting it to .lynxrc
is a bad thing (on some mailing lists).

>> I build a package as follows:
>>  configure --enable-syslog
>>  and/but set SYSLOG_REQUESTED_URLS:FALSE in a default
>>  /etc/lynx-cur/lynx.cfg
>>
>> I guess this will provide a user the most flexible way.
>
> agreed

Disagreed. I say, do both of the above, PLUS switch the
|BOOLEAN syslog_requested_urls = TRUE;
from src/LYMain.c to FALSE – this is only used if the
lynx.cfg file doesn’t set it, which is the original
person’s problem, so it is a safe default in all cases.

In addition to that I also propose erroring out fatally
if -cfg=«foo» is given and «foo» matches FNAME_LYNXRC
(or rather, the full path FNAME_LYNXRC is expanded to
matches «foo»’s full path). A bit radical, but safer
in the long term.

bye,
//mirabilos
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