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- From: rik@nella02.cc.monash.edu.au (Rik Harris)
- Subject: Re: Gopher and arguments in inetd.conf
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 08:58:03 GMT
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- mitra@pandora.sf.ca.us (Mitra) writes:
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- >Does anyone else have problems with the number of arguments required in
- >inetd.conf for Gopher. It appears that in our Unix (SCO 3.2.4) that the
-
- >number of parameters is limited to 9, which only leaves 4 for parameters
- >that end up in argv - by the time you've set the flags, -o -u -l you
- >dont have any left for the data-directory and the port.
-
- >Can someone not using SCO confirm if they have more parameters than this?
-
- This is a common problem with many versions of inetd. The solution is
- to put a shell script as the entry in /etc/inetd.conf, and in that
- script, do an "exec gopherd -o -p -t -i -o -n -s /and/file/names"
-
- rik.
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