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From: cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: /rsh and /usr/bin/mailx - are they incompatible?
Keywords: rsh,mailx,restricted,mail
Message-ID: <1990Jul24.141800.15561@warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 24 Jul 90 14:18:00 GMT
References: <1733@tssi.UUCP> <2834@awdprime.UUCP>
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In article <2834@awdprime.UUCP> tif@doorstop.austin.ibm.com (Paul Chamberlain) writes:
>In article <1733@tssi.UUCP> nolan@tssi.UUCP (Michael Nolan) writes:
>>When I try to use /usr/bin/mailx, I get the following message:
>>          sh: /usr/ucb/more: restricted
>
>Try setting PAGER=more and making sure more is in the search path.

But doesn't this blow away the whole point of using rsh, because you can get
out of more into vi via `v', set your shell to anything you want, and then
shell out ... (speaking as a BSD user who only remembers rsh from days of
abortively trying to make a secure environment).  As I recall we couldn't
allow any mail readers or pagers, and the only editor we could give out was ed
... real useful.

Rob
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