[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
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