[BRLTTY] brltty installed on Mac with screen-4.2.1

[Chris Moore]

On Sep 25, 2014, at 10:29 AM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by Chris Moore on 2014/09/24 at 21:13 -0400]
> 
>>> What's the output of ls -l on your screen executable?
>>> 
>> lrwxr-xr-x  1 root  admin  12 Sep 20 16:22 /opt/local/bin/screen -> screen-4.2.1
> 
> And what, then, is the output of ls -l on the screen-4.2.1 executable?
> 
-rwsr-xr-x  1 root  admin  484740 Sep 20 16:22 /opt/local/bin/screen-4.2.1

>>> In which order do you invoke them?
>> sudo screen
> 
> This'd mean that you're effectively logged in as root since you're running 
> screen as root and then creating screen windows from within that root 
> environment. This probably explains why you aren't having any problems, but 
> it's also an extremely risky way to do your day-to-day work.
> Agreed!
>> then brltty within the screen session.
> 
> Which also means that brltty, too, would be running as root for the same raeson 
> as above - screen is running as root.
> 
> Am I correct that /opt/local/bin isn't in your command search path, or is it?
> echo $PATH
/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin

> What's the output from the command: type screen
> 
screen is /opt/local/bin/screen

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