Re: [Bug: 21.4.13] gnuserv configuration

Laurelin of Middle Earth writes: > My situation: I use gnuserv/gnuclient. My site's Security Gurus are > complaining about the fact that gnuserv is listening for incoming > connections on an open port, And well they might! > It looks to me as if what I *want* to do is to force the use of unix > sockets rather than internet sockets. Is this something that I can do > without somehow finding a different build of xemacs (or rolling my > own)? Is it a configuration option, or must it be built in at compile > time? It's compile time. On or near line 54 of lib-src/gnuserv.h you will find the line #define INTERNET_DOMAIN_SOCKETS Change it to #undef INTERNET_DOMAIN_SOCKETS and rebuild. This is very low-tech, I know, but nobody's ever contributed a patch to make this a configurable option (either via configure at build time or in Lisp at runtime). In theory, you could just run ./configure and then "make gnuserv" in the lib-src directory and save some time. However, I can't promise that gnuserv doesn't depend on any of the configuration options chosen by your vendor (Red Hat, I guess?) > I hope I've explained this clearly enough. Certainly, it was very clear. HTH Steve