Re: [fossil-users] AIX 7.1

2013-03-25 Thread C. Thomas Stover
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 17:47:44 +, C. Thomas Stover wrote: > On the other hand this may be more of a file system specific issue > rather than an OS specific one. for clarity's sake, this is wrong. I just found the discussion about this over in sqlite-users. AIX simply doe

Re: [fossil-users] AIX 7.1

2013-03-25 Thread C. Thomas Stover
uld say just doing the above test would be perfectly acceptable. -- C. Thomas Stover www.thomasstover.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] AIX 7.1

2013-03-25 Thread C. Thomas Stover
On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 12:40:39 -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 12:30 PM, C. Thomas Stover > >> On AIX 7.1, I get the following SQLite error on a open (jfs2 file >> system): >> >> /usr/local/bin/fossil: SQLITE_IOERR: os_unix.c:28318: (9) fsyn

[fossil-users] AIX 7.1

2013-03-25 Thread C. Thomas Stover
--disable-internal-sqlite ./configure --CFLAGS="-I/usr/local/include" --LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib - lsqlite3" ./configure --disable-internal-sqlite My work around has been a kludge with running fossil on a Linux system with sshfs + symlinks, but maybe there a chance this is f

Re: [fossil-users] source viewing code

2013-03-21 Thread C. Thomas Stover
irst test replying to a thread from the newsreader side.) -- C. Thomas Stover www.thomasstover.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

[fossil-users] source viewing code

2013-03-21 Thread C. Thomas Stover
how feasible it would be to use some server side code for syntax highlighting. -- C. Thomas Stover www.thomasstover.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil

Re: [fossil-users] Fossil on Windows NT 4.0

2013-01-28 Thread C. Thomas Stover
Drop me line off list some day about retro-computing. -- C. Thomas Stover www.thomasstover.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread C. Thomas Stover
meday someone will create a tool to fill in the gap. Sort of a DVCS style metadata logging and control facility to a rsync style technology. Kind of like some of the interpretations of "distributed file system" back in the plan 9 lineage of thought for instance. C. Thomas Stover www.t

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-17 Thread C. Thomas Stover
On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 07:55:09 -0600 Carson Chittom wrote: > "C. Thomas Stover" writes: > > > Well if hardcopy means scanned paper (no ocr) then it sounds like a > > very large binary file set. > > I'm showing my ignorance, but does OCR matter in this ca

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-16 Thread C. Thomas Stover
ncept is sound. Report back on how it goes in practice. -- C. Thomas Stover www.thomasstover.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] some questions about fossil-as-document-repo

2013-01-16 Thread C. Thomas Stover
ce. Regardless of what efforts are expended otherwise, the result will always be failure. This I have learned is just a reality of the universe in which we live. -- C. Thomas Stover www.thomasstover.com ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lis

Re: [fossil-users] applied DVCS for collaborative work - on the fossil project itself, or otherwise

2012-12-13 Thread C. Thomas Stover
On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 09:27:03 -0700 Matt Welland wrote: > One partial solution available today is to use http://chiselapp.com. > Simply use their "clone repo" feature with regular pull. What exactly does that do over a regular clone & pull? -- www.thomasstover.com _

[fossil-users] applied DVCS for collaborative work - on the fossil project itself, or otherwise

2012-12-12 Thread C. Thomas Stover
t sort of steps would make it ok to say "hey folks check out fossil hack, it's up on a cloned repo at url abc". Even if one was in the position of a regular contributor, they still might want to do something like this as sort of a "public private branch" in between contrib

Re: [fossil-users] pushing only specific branches to specific servers?

2012-12-12 Thread C. Thomas Stover
option. -- C. Thomas Stover Stover Enterprises, LLC ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

[fossil-users] pushing only specific branches to specific servers?

2012-12-11 Thread C. Thomas Stover
Is there some way to push just a specific branch to a server other than the private branch feature? For example branch A and B are both stored locally, and are both pushed to server 1, yet only branch B is pushed to server 2. ___ fossil-users mailing lis

Re: [fossil-users] Using fossil as CMS

2012-11-26 Thread C. Thomas Stover
to a doc folder or something. -- C. Thomas Stover Stover Enterprises, LLC ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] suggested modifications to ssh code

2012-10-10 Thread Thomas Stover
I expanded upon this some more. -fixed some security concerns; fossil ui no longer is a bypass -fixed an issue with access() and setuid logic -the web interface has a place to change the posix id -no need to manually modify tables -changes contained within #ifdefs (exepct on the scheme.c part were

[fossil-users] suggested modifications to ssh code

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Stover
I'm going to have to call it a day, but this is good enough to communicate my points (I hope). The ssh transport does not run fossil as a remote command via the invocation of ssh (as in "ssh -l user -p port host 'fossil parameters'"). Instead it uses ssh to log into the shell, then from there

Re: [fossil-users] SSH url concept question

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Stover
I figured it out. I had to hack the source a little. I'll be back with some sort of coherent response ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] SSH url concept question

2012-10-09 Thread Thomas Stover
On Sunday, October 7, 2012 6:28pm, "Richard Hipp" said: > > No password is required to access the repository on the remote end. > Because you are accessing it locally, you have complete administrator/setup > rights. It will let you do anything. Permissions do not matter. > Ok, great! Stil

[fossil-users] SSH url concept question

2012-10-06 Thread Thomas Stover
I'm looking for the web page / archived email thread / source file / person who could clear this up. >From what I can piece together the ssh transport, at a minimum, can be used to >substitute a regular sshd setup for a http/https server in the role of a >*transport*. For instance: thomas@netb

[fossil-users] not saving password on clients during clone & update operations

2012-08-02 Thread Thomas Stover
Well, I really thought I was doing this at one point, but I can't seem to find out how anymore. How do I tell fossil to just prompt me for a password every time instead of saving it on a slightly-untrustworthy computer? -- www.thomasstover.com ___ fossi

Re: [fossil-users] manifest file is malformed - one cause explained

2012-07-09 Thread Thomas Stover
On Monday, July 9, 2012 12:51pm, "Stephan Beal" said: > Are you sure this has to do with absolute file names? We had a bug a week or > two ago with a malformed > manifest, and you might be seeing that. Can you try this with the latest > version, and paste in any error > messages? No I'm n

[fossil-users] manifest file is malformed - one cause explained

2012-07-08 Thread Thomas Stover
Forgoing the sordid tale of why I had to do this, to commit changes from a laptop, I had to copy my fossil project directories over to another computer with functioning internet connectivity. Once there, I tried a "fossil commit" only to be hit with a manifest file is malformed error. Some searchin

[fossil-users] fossil hosting althttpd xinetd stunnel IPv6

2012-06-06 Thread Thomas Stover
Being IPv6 world launch day[1], I thought I would share some quick config file lines that seemed to have taken an inordinate amount of time to arrive at. I'm on debian 6, which is important because from searching one can see that behavior moderately platform dependent, and documentation is in some

Re: [fossil-users] althttpd.c & apache log analyzers

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Stover
- The diff below implements "combined log format" used by several popular web traffic analyzers, when the COMBINED_LOG_FORMAT macro is defined. ie "gcc althttpd.c -DCOMBINED_LOG_FORMAT -o /usr/local/bin/althttpd" - The date should now be in the right format. I think the reason it still "wo

Re: [fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thu, 31 May 2012 13:44:52 +1000 "Chen, Zon" wrote: > By my second question, I meant Fossil's "Administrator" account, not > that of windows. Assuming that I don't find a solution for people > brute-forcing passwords for regular accounts, that's not a big deal. > However, if people can brute-f

Re: [fossil-users] Security of Fossil

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thu, 31 May 2012 12:00:48 +1000 "Chen, Zon" wrote: > - By default, there doesn't seem to be a feature to stop brute-force > attacks on passwords, like a max-number-of-invalid-logins thing. Are > there ways to protect our user accounts from such attacks? TLS/SSL (https) is the first step towa

Re: [fossil-users] althttpd.c & apache log analyzers

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Stover
On Wed, 30 May 2012 20:19:55 -0400 James Turner wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 08:09:54PM -0400, Richard Hipp wrote: > > But now I see that the patch is not quite right: it is also missing a \n > > > > (1) You always use GET instead of the value in the zMethod variable > > (2) You always u

Re: [fossil-users] althttpd.c & apache log analyzers

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Stover
On Wed, 30 May 2012 18:14:54 -0400 Richard Hipp wrote: > Can you send the output of "diff -u" please? I can't quite figure > out how to apply the diff below. > See if that works. Admittedly I never use diff. --- src/althttpd.c 2011-12-28 15:42:28.0 -0500 +++ althttpd.c 2012-05-3

[fossil-users] althttpd.c & apache log analyzers

2012-05-30 Thread Thomas Stover
I like the GoAccess www log analyzer which like many others uses the "common log format". I think I'm going all in with xinet.d + stunnel + althttpd for now, so I applied the following rough edge hack in diff format below. Perhaps it will be of use to someone else. http://goaccess.prosoftcorp.com

Re: [fossil-users] clearsign, so what

2012-03-09 Thread Thomas Stover
I'm trying to follow along here, and have a few abstract questions. If an attacker takes control over a repository, then that repository is compromised, and would need to be restored from a non-compromised back up. By compromised we mean someone deleted it, defaced it, or worse tries to hide ma

Re: [fossil-users] Last changed date on wiki pages

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:13pm, "Stephan Beal" said: > Doh, i almost forgot a recently-added feature... try: > > http://.../json/wiki/get/PAGENAME?format=none > Or: > fossil wiki get PAGENAME -format none > > that will return a given page's metadata without its content: > > { > "fos

Re: [fossil-users] web page icon propagation

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 12:18pm, "Weber, Martin S" said: > > It's easy actually. The full command is "configuration", to which all of Awesome. "fossil configuration pull skin" did it. Looking at the bytes transferred, the icon itself must have already come over in another operation.

Re: [fossil-users] web page icon propagation

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:47am, "LluĂ­s Batlle i Rossell" said: > On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:41:53AM -0600, Thomas Stover wrote: >> I spoke too soon. I get "fossil: unknown command: configure" on all my >> installations. Do I need another build flag?

Re: [fossil-users] web page icon propagation

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Stover
I spoke too soon. I get "fossil: unknown command: configure" on all my installations. Do I need another build flag? ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] Last changed date on wiki pages

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 9:33am, "Stephan Beal" said: > > The adventurous can get that via the json api: > > fossil json wiki get PageName > Or: > http://... /json/wiki/get/PageName > > Should do the trick. > Interesting. Once I figured out I needed to rebuild with --enable-json it

Re: [fossil-users] web page icon propagation

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Stover
On Thursday, February 16, 2012 11:23am, "Richard Hipp" said: > > fossil configure pull > fossil configure push skin ok. I think one time I did do a "configure pull", and another time just "pull". The user accounts are not by chance part of this configuration? ___

[fossil-users] web page icon propagation

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Stover
At first it appeared that push/pull was propagating the project icon. Then it looked like it was not, so I started adding it manually. Then I realized that was just browser silliness. Now I'm back to not seeing it working. Would someone tell me if this is suppose to work, since I have confused m

[fossil-users] Last changed date on wiki pages

2012-02-16 Thread Thomas Stover
Anyway to make a place on a wiki page say something like "this was last updated on x/x/x"? ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] Annotation information not propagated across branches

2012-01-15 Thread Thomas Stover
On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:32:08 +0530 ashish...@lostca.se (Ashish SHUKLA) wrote: Dude! How did you get a picture to show up in the header of of your email? I've never seen that before. I'm seeing this with Claws Mail. ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-u

[fossil-users] fossil for photos archive?

2012-01-11 Thread Thomas Stover
Just about every time I get started on a new software tool, I revisit the question of it will help me finally get my family photos under control, regardless of whether or not it makes any sense. Storing large numbers of pictures in subversion for instance, turned out to be a very bad idea. Anyone

Re: [fossil-users] althttpd cgi chroot stunnel

2012-01-10 Thread Thomas Stover
As promissed, a stab at some more dumbed down instructions. (So at least I might be able to figure this out again later) = Checklist For stunnel + althttpd + fossil configuration This configuration allows for multiple fossil projects, static contents, other non-fossil cgi co

Re: [fossil-users] diagnosing log in problems

2012-01-10 Thread Thomas Stover
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:55:20 -0500 Richard Hipp wrote: > exec = /usr/bin/althttpd > execargs = /usr/bin/althttpd -logfile /logs/http.log -root /home/www > -user www-data -https 1 That helped, I forget the separate exec and execargs parts. Relevant valgrind output is: ==29180== Invalid read of

Re: [fossil-users] diagnosing log in problems

2012-01-10 Thread Thomas Stover
On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 07:58:11 -0500 Richard Hipp wrote: > If this is all your log shows, that indicates that Fossil is never > seeing the actual login attempt. The error appears to be occurring > somewhere before reaching Fossil. > Indeed. It appears the problem is with althttp. /var/log/messag

Re: [fossil-users] diagnosing log in problems

2012-01-09 Thread Thomas Stover
On Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:31:38 -0500 Richard Hipp wrote: > Make sure the fossil repository itself and the directory that > contains the repository are readable and writable by the www-data > user. > Yep it is. In fact ./fossil server buildconfigurationadjust.fossil works just fine. __

Re: [fossil-users] C API

2012-01-07 Thread Thomas Stover
How about a SOAP or "REST" full api in the web interface? ___ fossil-users mailing list fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.org http://lists.fossil-scm.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fossil-users

Re: [fossil-users] https cgi links to http urls

2011-12-27 Thread Thomas Stover
On Tue, 27 Dec 2011 19:36:38 -0500 Richard Hipp wrote: > Fossil expects (in accordance with the CGI spec) the HTTPS environment > variable to be set if it is run from CGI and HTTPS is used instead of > HTTP. It will when automatically make all the hyperlinks also use > HTTPS. Ok that makes sens