Re: converting tkGnats

[Rick Macdonald]

On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Michael Richardson wrote:

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>   Hi, I've bit the bullet and started to go through tkGnats to make it happy
> with a gnats 4.0 server that I've recently installed.

I guess I'm OK with that; I just don't know when I could ever have gotten
to it.

>   1) I can't seem to find the database documentation on the 3.x gnatsd.
>      What does LCFG return?

In 3.x it returns the gnats-db/gnats-adm/config file.
 
>   2) "LIST classes" to gnatsd does not return anything.
>   
>       I traced through this with gdb with -n.
>       Should "classes" be a built-in field? I think not.
>       I don't see where it would actually open the file and read it in.
>       Is there some document that I should be reading?
> 
>   3) I had a lot of difficulties with initial setup.
>      gnatsd would close the connection with *no* error message if I didn't
>      have: "*::view" in gnats-adm/gnatsd.access. The host already had access.
>      I'd like to at least get an error message in that situation. I
>      understand and agree that it can just close the socket if the host is
>      never authorized. (However, the paranoid will also have tcp-wrappers)
> 
>      Something should be logged in any case. I don't get the impression that
>      syslog is quite setup right by gnatsd.
> 
>   I'm running a pretty much up-to-date CVS checked version.
>   Thanks.
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...RickM...