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Comment on libpwmd7-dev and application patches by bjk

bjk — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:42:33 +0000

Sorry about the tests. I didn’t think about the blog subscribers. It would be easy to add support for TCP sockets. There used to be support for TLS connections to have the data encrypted but was replaced by libpwmd’s SSH support while still having pwmd listen on a UNIX domain socket. But if you really need it I suppose I could add TLS back in.

Comment on libpwmd7-dev and application patches by Wim Bakker

Wim Bakker — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 08:30:10 +0000

Got a lot of tests in my mail from your blog,
question : would it be fairly straightforward to have pwmd listen on
a tcp port instead of a unix socket?

Comment on CBoard 0.6 by jostberBerntsen

jostberBerntsen — Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:17:07 +0000

Installed ncurses from your link and that worked perfectly, thanks!

Comment on CBoard 0.6 by bjk

bjk — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 23:04:42 +0000

The panel.h header file is included with the ncurses package and is required to build cboard. Depending on your distribution/OS you should be able to install an libncurses5-dev package or similar to fix it. If you have some funky distribution that doesn’t have the ncurses development files already packaged, then you could always build and install ncurses from source (http://invisible-island.net/ncurses/ncurses.html). Good luck!

Comment on CBoard 0.6 by jostberBerntsen

jostberBerntsen — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:31:52 +0000

Hi, thanks for a new version of a great program! I have some trouble getting the last version 0.6 to install. I get this error when running make:

make all-recursive
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jostein/dw/cboard-0.6′
Making all in libchess
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jostein/dw/cboard-0.6/libchess’
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -MT pgn.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/pgn.Tpo -c -o pgn.o pgn.c
mv -f .deps/pgn.Tpo .deps/pgn.Po
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -g -O2 -MT move.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/move.Tpo -c -o move.o move.c
mv -f .deps/move.Tpo .deps/move.Po
rm -f libchess.a
ar cru libchess.a pgn.o move.o
ranlib libchess.a
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jostein/dw/cboard-0.6/libchess’
Making all in src
make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jostein/dw/cboard-0.6/src’
gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -DDATA_PATH=\”/usr/local/share/cboard\” -I../libchess -g -O2 -MT cboard.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/cboard.Tpo -c -o cboard.o cboard.c
cboard.c:31:19: fatal error: panel.h: No such file or directory
compilation terminated.
make[2]: *** [cboard.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jostein/dw/cboard-0.6/src’
make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jostein/dw/cboard-0.6′
make: *** [all] Error 2

Comment on pwmd by bjk

bjk — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 23:36:51 +0000

As far as a tutorial, there is one included in the libpwmd package. Version 2.x of pwmd and version 6.x of libpwmd arent’t really worked on anymore, though. You may want to try the development versions by checking out the git repository for each since each include quite a few improvements from the previous stable version.

The development version of pwmd depends on a development version of gpg-agent (gnupg) and so cannot be released as stable until gnupg v2.1 is released. But, it works and is better than pwmd 2.x if you don’t mind the gpg-agent dependency. The qpwmc client depends on libpwmd7 (also in development and requires the unreleased pwmd 3.0) and is much easier to use than the included pwmc client from the libpwmd package.

Comment on pwmd by bjk

bjk — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 22:20:59 +0000

Be sure there are no spaces between the comma separated list of users/groups.

Comment on pwmd by Wim Bakker

Wim Bakker — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:00:32 +0000

All problems solved , except for the allowed users, whatever I do , as soon as I uncomment
the #allowed config option and add some users behind it, pwmd refuses any connection
including from root.

Comment on pwmd by Wim Bakker

Wim Bakker — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 13:12:45 +0000

Upgrading glib to 2.16 helped , but now I get these errors :
[/root]# echo -ne ’isp\tsmtp\thostname\tsomehost.com’ | pwmc –socket /var/run/.pwmd/socket –inquire STORE -S filename
Connected.
Opening data file “filename” …
XFER 36/0 0%
Saving changes …
COMPRESS 228/228 100%
ENCRYPT 1/1 100%
Connection closed.
[/root]# echo -ne ’get isp\tsmtp\thostname’ | pwmc –socket /var/run/.pwmd/socket filename
Connected.
Opening data file “filename” …
DECRYPT 1/1 100%
DECOMPRESS 228/228 100%
CACHE 1
ERR 275 Unknown IPC command
Connection closed.

So basically , I can now store something but retrieving gives an error
Interactive mode does not work at all, either I don’t understand the manual
or the utility does not function
Is there a manual with some more elaborate instructions on how to use this
utility ?

Thanks
Wim Bakker

Comment on pwmd by bjk

bjk — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 21:57:16 +0000

Be sure your using libglib2 >= 2.14.0 since this version introduced the goffset data type.