[hylafax-devel] Re: missing parts of security-patch.sh

[Andy Sparrow <andy@geek4food.org>]

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Your message dated: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 22:18:07 +1000
>At 03:32 AM 6/18/00 -0700, Andy Sparrow wrote:
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>>Your message dated: Sun, 18 Jun 2000 17:17:06 +1000

>....it would be better if the port just put it in sbin...it can quite often 
>be tricky to tell a user how to start and stop hylafax(sometimes hfaxd is 
>started from inetd sometimes not), if the SYSVINIT script is setup properly 
>it can start and stop the daemons directly or from the faxsetup script.

I'll look at this some more.

>Not quite it looks like the /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts directory is 
>missing the 'Fontmap' file to decode the font names.  It does contain AFM 
>files their names are just encoded - you are missing the decryption key - 
>the Fontmap file.
>
>type gs -h to look at the ghostscript search path it should contain a 
>Fontmap file somewhere.

Aha!

  Aladdin Ghostscript 6.01 (2000-03-17)
  Copyright (C) 2000 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.  All rights reserved.
  Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]

  <SNIP>

  Search path:
     . : /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.01/lib :
     /usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts
  For more information, see /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.01/doc/Use.htm.
  Report bugs to bug-gs@aladdin.com, using the form in Bug-form.htm.

There's a Fontmap file in /usr/local/share/ghostscript/6.01/lib.

>> >...are you sure the above isn't the 'size_t' type, that seems to be what
>> >alot of the other platforms are using.
<SNIP>
>Interesting they changed the type and it looks like they have a defined 
>socklen_t to hide that from the user(which is what hylafax tries to use)... 
>What does the manpage for accept give as the function prototype ie is the 
>last param of socklen_t type?

Yes it is.

Cheers,

AS


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