Re: [Sqlgrey-users] Patch: set EGID for the server process

[Lionel B. <lio...@bo...>]

Lionel Bouton wrote the following on 12/13/04 17:36 :

> Oystein Viggen wrote the following on 12/13/04 16:43 :
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I noticed that Net::Server would complain in my mail.warn log that 
>> that EGID
>> was not defined:
>>
>> Dec 13 12:20:14 lists sqlgrey[22928]: Group Not Defined.  Defaulting 
>> to EGID '0 0'
>>
>> I've written a quick patch (attached) that should support setting 
>> --group on
>> the command line and group in the config file and default to 
>> "sqlgrey" if
>> nothing is specified.[...]
>>
>
> That's a longstanding annoyance, yes. I'm not yet really familiar with 
> the Net::Server framework and I'll have to find if making it switch to 
> the default group of the specified user is easily doable (if I can 
> remove some configuration the user needs to think about, I prefer 
> doing so). If not I'll gladly take your patch.


Net::Server can't make it, and it looks like infering the default group 
of an user in a portable way (not reading from /etc/passwd) is a mess. 
Oystein, your patch is included in my tree (minus the 5 minute delay).

Thanks again,

Lionel.