Re: [Openinteract-help] Undefined subroutine &OpenInteract::handler called.

[Chris W. <ch...@cw...>]

On Mon, 2002-03-11 at 14:15, Magnus Espeland wrote:
> I finally figured out what was wrong, thanks to your tips :-)
> 
> My problem was that I'm using Trustix (the redhat based distribution with
> focus on security), for the first time in a year and a half, and had
> forgotten how secure it really is.. problem was that both cpan and
> oi_manage ran with a umask of 077. Took me a while to figure out that cpan
> didn't change the umask. 
>
> But now everything is working!
> I have a little wish list though ;-)
> - Could you make oi_manage change it's umask when we run it? Maybe it's
> best to make it an option?

Ah, I'll bet that was fun to debug!

Maybe it would be a good idea instead to create wrappers on your system
that do something like:

-----/usr/local/bin/cpan-----
#!/bin/sh
umask 022
perl -MCPAN -e shell
----------


(rename oi_manage to oi_manage.pl)
-----/usr/local/bin/oi_manage-----
#!/bin/sh
umask 022
perl /usr/local/bin/oi_manage $*
----------

Since this is the first time this has popped up, I'd rather not put this
sort of stuff (security) into OI if I can help it.

> - ApacheStartup.pm or Startup.pm creates tmplib, it should check it's
> uid/gid and umask. My apache runs as uid/gid=httpd but the tmplib dir
> shows up with 700 root.root, and that doesn't work very well ;-) I just
> hacked the module to change umask one line before it creates the
> directory, but I reckon it should be done elsewhere and a little more
> though-thru...

Excellent point. I'll check that and ensure that the umask allows at
least read access by everyone.

> - Could you make oi_manage understand relative --website_dir (like
> --website_dir=.)?

That's a good idea. I'll put this down to check as well.

> Bugs:
> - Typo at line 15 in event-1.20/struct/event.sql (varchar not varcar)

Fixed in CVS! Thanks.

Chris

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