[imp] ispell not working

Szókovács Róbert szo at ies.hu
Mon Jan 9 08:03:56 PST 2006


Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> Quoting Chris <grooveman at comcast.net>:
> 
>> Hello.  I am running imp 4.0.4 with horde 3.0.9 on OpenBSD 3.8 in a
>> chroot jail.
> [snip]
>> What can I do to get this rolling?
> 
> Unfortunately, everyone who's tried has had the same experience you're
> having - with a chroot jail something in the chain of Horde -> PHP ->
> ispell is just really unhappy.

it's the shell. horde uses php's exec() which uses libc's popen() which
invokes a shell (/bin/sh usually), which invokes the executable you
want to use. It's not nice and I already complained about it on horde
and php forums :)
So, install a shell in the chroot as a workaround.

br

Szo



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