Thanks for the response. In case this hits anyone else, the
problem is this is a Linux security measure due to screen being
setgid. This seems Linux-specifc in the system and specific to TMPDIR
and certain other environments variables. See below. It's
mentioned here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=129682#c1
Although this is not documented in man ld.so(8) as suggest in
one of the postings.
The best work around I can see is to have TMPDIR set in
/etc/screenrc.
Mark
FreeBSD 8.2, OS/X 10.7.4:
TMPDIR=/var/barney FRED=fred screen
echo $TMPDIR
/var/barney
echo $FRED
fred
CentOS 5.2, Ubuntu 12.0
TMPDIR=/var/barney FRED=fred screen
echo $TMPDIR
bash: TMPDIR: unbound variable
echo $FRED
fred
Kevin Van Workum <[email protected]> writes:
> As far as I know, screen behaves like any other process and inherits
> its environment. So invoking screen as follows should work, if not,
> then you have some other problems.
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