Problem With Lynx Over Ssh

[chessassistance]

Hi all,

 

I am trying to run lynx over ssh, and when I attempt to start it, ie. I type:

lynx

I get the following error:

Configuration file (null) is not available

 

I suspect that maybe this is an issue with permissions not allowing me access to the lynx config file.

 

Is there a fix for this?

 

Thanks,

Bob

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the family, Bob!

 

As far as I know SSH is no longer supported. See the SSH information page.

Edited February 21, 2004 by TCH-Bruce

[chessassistance]

The problem is not ssh, it works. Lynx is the problem.

 

I mentioned ssh in case it has some bearing on the solution (doubtful).

 

Best,

Bob

[MikeJ]

The problem you are having is because the jailshell environment doesn't have a config file for lynx so lynx dies trying to find one.

 

For the majority of what you would do with lynx, though you don't really need a config file. You can just let it default everything. So do one of two things:

 

either run lynx with a cfg value: lynx -cfg=/dev/null

 

or create a file called .bash_profile in your home directory and put the following in it:

>LYNX_CFG=/dev/null

export LYNX_CFG

[chessassistance]

Wonderful, that did the trick! Thanks for the prompt response!

 

Bob