Re: [webmin-l] Webmin under inetd - error: Socket::unpack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be 16 . .

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

Robert wrote:
>>>>On Sat, 2003-08-30 at 14:32, Robert wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>When I run webmin as an inetd task, I get scores of the following lines
>>>>
>>>in
>>>
>>>
>>>>>/var/log/webmin/miniserv.error
>>>>>
>>>>>Bad arg length for Socket::unpack_sockaddr_in, length is 0, should be
>>>>
> 16
> 
>>>at
>>>
>>>
>>>>>/opt/webmin/miniserv.pl line 671.
>>>>
>>>>Does this happen for every single HTTP request to webmin, or just some?
>>>
>>>
>>>This seems to happen multiple times for each HTTP request.  I happened
>>
> twice
> 
>>>when I entered webmin and four times when I clicked on usermin
>>>configuration.  Presumably this is slowing things down a lot.
>>
>>Annoyingly, I can't seem to replicate this bug on my systems. Which OS
>>and perl version are you running?
>>
>>  - Jamie
> 
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> I'm running slacware 9.0.  Kernel 2.4.20 (compiled for k6-2),
> perl-5.8.0-i386-3.

Looks the cause is that the browser is closing the connection before 
webmin gets a chance to find the client IP address. I will add a check 
for this in the next release, so that the error doesn't appear ..

  - Jamie