Re: How can I preserve TMPDIR environment in screen?

2017-07-16 Thread Mark Diekhans
It's not screen, it's the kernel because screen is sgid, for security reasons You can have your .emacs reset TMPDIR or have a wrapper script that does this. Jean Louis writes: > Hello, > > I am using screen in following peculiar manner, down below. > > And I am trying to test it to change the

Re: passing environment variables through to screen

2012-07-04 Thread Mark Diekhans
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

passing environment variables through to screen

2012-07-02 Thread Mark Diekhans
Is there a way to cause screen to pass through environment variables when invoked? My particular problem is TMPDIR, which varies on different systems we have. Thanks! ___ screen-users mailing list screen-users@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/lis