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- From: dparter@fyvie.cs.wisc.edu (David W. Parter)
- Newsgroups: alt.gopher
- Subject: Re: problems with gopherd under inetd
- Message-ID: <dparter.712246503@cs.wisc.edu>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 14:15:03 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.035950.7779@mtu.edu>
- Sender: news@spool.cs.wisc.edu (The News)
- Organization: U of Wisconsin CS Dept
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- splite@mtu.edu (Steven Plite) writes:
-
- >I'm having a problem in getting gopherd to use both a log and a security file.
- >The relevent line in inetd.conf is:
-
- >gopher stream tcp nowait root /local/mining/lib/gopherd gopherd
- >-I -l /local/mining/gopher/.log -s /local/mining/gopher/.secure /local/mining/go
- >pher 70
-
- >If I remove either the '-l ...' or the '-s ...' part, it works. If both are
- >present, the server won't grant access. My gopher directory looks like so:
-
- Inetd has an internal limit of 5 arguments for a daemon. This is not
- documented in the sun man pages. Call a shell script from inetd,
- (I call mine run.gopherd), and in the shell exec gopherd with the
- arguments you want.
-
- Perhaps this should be noted somewhere in the unix gopherd documentation...
-
- --david
-
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- david parter university of wisconsin -- madison
- dparter@cs.wisc.edu computer sciences department
-