[gopher] Gophernicus & systemd (Was: Motsognir question)

Tue Dec 29 17:52:55 UTC 2015

Uggh systemd; yggh

cheers
James

James Mills / prologic

E: prologic at shortcircuit.net.au
W: prologic.shortcircuit.net.au

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 4:14 AM, Kim Holviala <kim at holviala.com> wrote:

> I just came back from Porto (Portugal) last night and it was nice and
> sunny +18C there :D
>
> Currently coding systemd support for Gophernicus, and god damn that sucker
> refuses to understand my unit files, and apparently there are no working
> inetd-like unit file examples on the intertubes. Did I mention I hate
> systemd? So far it was just a bad feeling but now I have first-hand
> experience...
>
>
>
> - kim
>
>
>
>
> > On 29 Dec 2015, at 11:30, Martin Kukac <logout128 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> > Weather status: +4C here, which is a lot colder than just a week ago,
> when we had +14C, but it's probably more than we will have next week, as
> forecast says that new year will start with -4C and less :-)
> >
> > I'm glad that Gophernicus will be systemd-compliant, because lack of
> systemd support would probably not kill systemd but Gophernicus. It's a
> weird world we live in...
> >
> > Martin
> >
> > On 12/29/2015 08:43 AM, Kim Holviala wrote:
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> Offtopic: -10C here and car was completely frozen this morning :D
> >>
> >> I just checked the Gopherniucs code, and it first parses and fixes the
> selector and then does a chdir() to that selector directory before
> continuing. So chdir() is always done, even for requests that don't need it
> - the original reason was security; if chdir() fails then we don't have
> proper access rights and we can die() with proper error message.
> >>
> >> And I think I'll reverse my stand on systemd - even if I personally
> loathe it, without support for systemd Gophernicus is as good as dead
> because no one can use it.
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> - Kim
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> On 29 Dec 2015, at 09:30, Mateusz Viste <mateusz at viste.fr> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Done:
> >>>
> >>> http://sourceforge.net/p/motsognir/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/
> >>>
> >>> ("Download snapshot")
> >>>
> >>> This latest version should solve both your troubles:
> >>> - it makes gophermaps resolve relative paths to dynamic subgophermap
> (ie. you can use now =./script.php entries in your gophermaps)
> >>> - when executing a CGI/PHP script, it makes sure to set the 'working
> directory' to either where the parent gophermap is (if called from within a
> gophermap), or where the script itself is.
> >>>
> >>> I hope you will find these changes useful.
> >>>
> >>> cheers,
> >>> Mateusz
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On 29/12/2015 06:26, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> >>>> Oh, sorry, I missed the fact that your problem was two-fold :)
> >>>> Indeed, my latest patch is simply setting the current working
> directory
> >>>> for executed scripts, but the gophermap still needs to find them by
> >>>> their absolute path.
> >>>>
> >>>> I will add this today, so gophermaps will be able to locate scripts
> >>>> using their relative path.
> >>>>
> >>>> BTW, in the special case that a script is called by a gophermap (as
> >>>> opposed to being called by the user agent directly), I believe it
> would
> >>>> make more sense to set the current working directory to where the
> >>>> gophermap is, not where the script is. What do you think?
> >>>>
> >>>> say, I have a gophermap in /mystuff, that calls the inline script
> >>>> /cgi-bin/output.cgi - in this case, I'd rather expect the current
> >>>> working directory of the script to be set to /mystuff, instead of
> >>>> /cgi-bin/. Do you agree on this?
> >>>>
> >>>> Mateusz
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On 28/12/2015 22:58, Martin Kukac wrote:
> >>>>> Hello Mateusz,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> thanks a lot, that solved one part of my original question. Indeed
> PHP
> >>>>> scripts now have working directory set to the same directory they are
> >>>>> saved in. How about the gophermap itself? When I use = to insert
> result
> >>>>> of executed script, I have to specify the complete path.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It's not a big deal, it just would be more friendly if Motsognir was
> by
> >>>>> default searching in the same directory, where the gophermap is
> (when I
> >>>>> use =./somescript.php).
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Martin
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On 12/28/2015 08:07 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> >>>>>> Hello Martin,
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> It's done. Now Motsognir will run CGI and PHP scripts from within
> the
> >>>>>> directory where the given script resides. You will find the most
> recent
> >>>>>> release on Motsognir's SVN, but you can just as well simply fetch
> the
> >>>>>> tarball from sourceforge's interface:
> >>>>>> http://sourceforge.net/p/motsognir/code/HEAD/tree/trunk/
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> ("Download snapshot")
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> I didn't release a new "official" version for that yet, since maybe
> some
> >>>>>> other minor things will go in it.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Let me know if you have any troubles deploying this latest version.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Mateusz
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On 28/12/2015 16:33, Martin Kukac wrote:
> >>>>>>> Thanks a lot! This will actually be the very first time I will
> update
> >>>>>>> already installed gopher server :-)
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> At the moment I can't tell any more suggestions, but that may
> change as
> >>>>>>> I will progress in modyfying gophermaps.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Martin
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On 12/28/2015 04:06 PM, Mateusz Viste wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Hi Martin,
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Nice to hear you use Motsognir!
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> The current path (pwd) is changed to / when Motsognir daemonize
> >>>>>>>> itself,
> >>>>>>>> and it is never changed. It is not a bug - it's a (lack of)
> feature ;)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Switching the "current directory" to the script's location just
> before
> >>>>>>>> executing it sounds like a harmless thing to do, and it would
> >>>>>>>> definitely
> >>>>>>>> make your life easier. I will write a patch for that today, and
> let
> >>>>>>>> you
> >>>>>>>> know when it's ready.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> By any means, let me know should you see any other other
> perfectible
> >>>>>>>> points in Motsognir, or need help with some particular items,
> I'll be
> >>>>>>>> happy to help.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> cheers,
> >>>>>>>> Mateusz
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
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