Two bugs that render this app unusable as installed: 1) /etc/init.d/rwhoisd does not use -- to separate the daemon's arguments from the stop-stop-daemon's args, resulting in -c <path to rwhoisd conf> being misinterpreted as a faulty chroot user. Current: start() { ebegin "Starting rwhoisd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/rwhoisd ${RWHOISD_OPTS} eend $? } Should be: start() { ebegin "Starting rwhoisd" start-stop-daemon --start --quiet --exec /usr/sbin/rwhoisd -- ${RWHOISD_OPTS} eend $? } 2) The mkdb toolkit relies on the system sort binary, but by default calls it using inappropriate syntax. There is a define in place with functional syntax, but I don't see any means of triggering it. Without fixing this, rwhoisd will fail to return responses to queries and the indexing tools will error out without building new indexes. Current rwhoisd-1.5.9.5/mkdb/index.c: #ifdef NEW_STYLE_BIN_SORT #define SORT_COMMAND "sort -o %s -k 5,5 -k 4,4n -t : %s" #else #define SORT_COMMAND "sort -o %s +4 +3 -t : %s " #endif If you change the second define to match the one inside the ifdef block, everything works like it's supposed to.
Error output calling /etc/init.d/rwhoisd: # /etc/init.d/rwhoisd start * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok ] * Starting rwhoisd ... * WARNING: -c/--chuid is deprecated and will be removed in the future, please use -u/--user instead * start-stop-daemon: user `/etc/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf' not found [ !! ] * ERROR: rwhoisd failed to start
Example error output from rwhois_indexer if sort define isn't updated: # bin/rwhois_indexer -c /etc/rwhoisd/rwhoisd.conf -i -v -s txt sort: cannot read: +4: No such file or directory error: sort failed: Success warning: could not delete temporary index file '': Success warning: could not delete temporary index file '': Success indexing failed
Should be all set in -r2. Thanks for the report.
