Re: [Sshguard-users] readonly setup broken with >1.5

[Mij <mi...@ss...>]

Moin Harald,

Thanks for reporting this. The hosts backend code is very old and I'm not
sure when this change occurred. Editing via /tmp is definitely the way to go.
We'll fix this in the next sprint.

m


On Dec 9, 2012, at 17:22 , Harald Schmalzbauer <h.s...@om...> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> thanks a lot for that nifty tool!
> I've bin using it for quiet some time.
> Very often, I have jails which are read-only / mounted. /etc/hosts.allow
> is then a symlink somehere into /var (which is writable).
> This has been working fine with older versions of sshguard, but it
> stopped working with version 1.6 for me. Not sure if that's really the
> first version where the behaviour changed though.
> 
> sshguard want's to create a temporary file inside /etc reflecting the pid:
>    "Could not create temporary file /etc/hosts.allow-sshguard.4020"
> 
> Why doesn't it use TMPDIR?
> 
> Any hint's where to work arround that in the code?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -Harry (not subscribed!)
> 
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