[Serusers] Fw: Serweb problems - 0.8.12

[Jim Burwell]

OMG!  How did I not see that myself when looking at the code!  I can't 
believe I missed that when I was looking at the code, albeit briefly.

- Jim


Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul wrote:

>On Nov 26, 2003 at 15:03, Jim Burwell <jimb at jsbc.cc> wrote:
>  
>
>>Ok.  I didn't know that SER had the ability to change the GID it runs 
>>under (and therefore change the group owner of the FIFO hopefully).  
>>This would solve the problem.  In my case I'd just set "group=serfifo".
>>
>>HOWEVER, why I try this, I get: 
>>
>>   {root at fs/pts/7}~# ser -P /var/run/ser.pid -dddd -g serfifo
>>   Segmentation fault
>>    
>>
>
>Thanks. It seems I never tried group= myself :-)
>
>It's fixed on the cvs (rel_0_8_11, rel_0_8_12 and HEAD), so either
>update or apply the attacged patch.
>
>Andrei
>  
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>Index: main.c
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvsroot/ser/sip_router/main.c,v
>retrieving revision 1.168
>diff -u -r1.168 main.c
>--- main.c	2003/10/12 15:09:08	1.168
>+++ main.c	2003/11/26 23:34:48
>@@ -1523,7 +1523,7 @@
> 		}
> 	}
> 	if (group){
>-		gid=strtol(user, &tmp, 10);
>+		gid=strtol(group, &tmp, 10);
> 		if ((tmp==0) ||(*tmp)){
> 			/* maybe it's a string */
> 			gr_entry=getgrnam(group);
>  
>

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