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From: David Chappell <David.Chappell@trincoll.edu> Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 14:49:38 -0400 Subject: Re: PPR: No ppop launch from PPOP.pm Kenneth Tindle wrote: > David, > > I might well have screwed up and caused my own problem. > > I did some poking inside PPOP.pm. The regular expression is OK! > The $junk scalar is empty (length zero) right after the 'my $junk...' > line. I uncommented the debug line that prints "Launching:"... > and so I know things are happy going into open2(). > > Is this a permissions problem?? This is what I have for the > 'ppop' executable in /usr/lib/ppr/bin: > > -rws--s--x ppr ppr This is fine. Any user can execute ppop. > paths.ph has the correct path to ppop, and the uncommented debug > line makes it clear that this does get picked up OK. So it isn't > a pathing problem. > > Will open2() spit out an error if denied permission? It looks > like ppop is not being launched, yet open2() does not complain. > This is why the regular expression is provided? I don't know what open2() does on failure. Yes, the regular expression is there to make sure that communictions will ppop have been established. > Does the ppop executable get launched as ppr, pprwww, or root? Since it is launched by a CGI script which is launched by ppr-httpd which Inetd runs as pprwww, ppop will get run as pprwww. - -- ================================================================ David Chappell David.Chappell@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Computing Center Postmaster@Mail.Trincoll.Edu Trinity College (860) 297-2114 Hartford, Connecticut 06106 U.S.A.