[hobbit] problem compiling nightly snapshot

Gary B. gmbfly98 at gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 20:32:37 CEST 2006


I've never made a patch file before, so hopefully I got this right.
At least, it seemed to work when I did a dry run of it on my
computer...

> I found my answer in one of the other source files.
> I changed the line
> "drop_root_and_removesuid();" in client/clientupdate.c
> to match a similar line in client/logfetch.c:
> "drop_root_and_removesuid(argv[0]);"
>
> That seems to have done the trick, and it compiled fine and seem to be
> running fine too.
>
>
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> >
> > Ah, looks like "drop_root_and_removesuid()" is expecting a char *.  I'm
> not sure what "fn" the function refers to, so I'm not sure how to fix the
> problem.
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> > > I had this happen on SLES 9 (server) and Tru64 5.1b PK5 (client)
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> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Adam
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ________________________________
>
> > >
> > > From: Gary B. [mailto:gmbfly98 at gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 05, 2006 12:38 PM
> > > To: hobbit at hswn.dk
> > > Subject: Re: [hobbit] problem compiling nightly snapshot
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > What OS was that on?  I got the same thing with OpenBSD 3.8.
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> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > I just got the nightly snapshot and now I am getting the following error
> when trying to compile it:
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > clientupdate.c: In function 'main':
> > >
> > > clientupdate.c:49: error: too few arguments to function
> 'drop_root_and_removesuid'
> > >
> > > make[1]: *** [clientupdate] Error 1
> > >
> > > make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/hobbit/snapshot/client'
> > >
> > > make: *** [client] Error 2
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Any ideas?
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> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Adam
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