Re: dired on freebsd machine does not get file permissions, lists horizontally

[Michael Albinus]

Terrence Brannon <address@hidden> writes:

> I am starting emacs fresh from the shell, so I suppose nothing like that is
> retained between sessions, but I went ahead and did it anyway

Tramp keeps persistent settings in "~/.emacs.d/tramp". You must either
remove this file before starting emacs, or cleanup the settings by the
command I gave you.

>> Please set tramp-verbose to 6, and show the debug buffer, if it still
>> doesn't work.
>
> ok done. looks like we dont have getconf installed for one thing.

Yes. Tramp falls back to default settings instead of; you shall check,
whether they are sufficient. AFAIK, "getconf PATH" shall return under
FreeBSD "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin".

Tramp sets the PATH on that remote machine to
"/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin", which seems to be reasonable.

> The output is below, but it may be hard to read. I have pasted it here
> also: http://gist.github.com/478820

Thanks, that explains the situation. The patch for checking
"--color=never" works. But there is also another case, where the
"--dired" argument of ls disturbs Tramp.

I've committed another patch to Tramp's repository, which shall fix
this. Please apply again "M-x tramp-cleanup-all-connections" before
running the test, because there are changed connection properties.

Best regards, Michael