calendar -a failing in 10.2-RELEASE

Robert Ames robertames at hotmail.com
Sun Dec 20 23:21:26 UTC 2015


In 10.2-RELEASE running "calendar -a" as root fails when user calendar files have a #include line.  This worked in 10.0-RELEASE (and before).  From my limited testing I think it's looking for the included files relative to root's home directory and not the user's home directory.  The svn repository shows some changes in this area in recent releases.  Not sure if this new behavior is intentional.

$ uname -a
FreeBSD freebsd.example.com 10.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 10.2-RELEASE #0: Sun Dec 20 10:00:14 CST 2015     root at freebsd.example.com:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
$ id
uid=1000(robert) gid=20(staff) groups=20(staff),0(wheel),5(operator)
$ date
Sun Dec 20 16:47:44 CST 2015
$ cat ~/.calendar/calendar 
#include <moredates>
$ cat ~/.calendar/moredates 
12/20   Today is December 20
$ calendar
Dec 20  Today is December 20

root at freebsd# id
uid=0(root) gid=0(wheel) groups=0(wheel),5(operator)
root at freebsd# calendar -a
calendar: can't open calendar file "moredates"

 		 	   		  


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