Andy Rabagliati <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a slightly different use-case for wwwoffle - I scoop websites
> on one machine with wwwoffle, tar up the files, and pass them to
> another machine via UUCP.
>
> It allows me to provide web services for disconnected networks.
>
> I am upgrading to the latest version of wwwoffle, and have bumped into
> a problem or two.
>
> First, using Ubuntu Feisty and wwwoffle 2.9a-2 the creation of root
> certificates is not reliable on startup - I often get an empty file.
> There seems to be some discussion of this on the list, and maybe I
> need a newer version.
Which list? There was one message to wwwoffle-users in February but
the cause of the problem was never resolved then.
I don't know why you would get an empty file, there should be an error
message given at the time that this happens. For the most recent
version of WWWOFFLE (2.9c) I have added extra error messages
explaining what to do if the file is found to be empty.
> Second, the path to those certificates seems to be hardcoded into the
> binary, at /etc/wwwoffle/certificates.
The path is the one that is given by the spool-dir option in the
configuration file. The "certificates" directory should appear
alongside the "http", "outgoing" and other directories. This is what
happens in the version of WWWOFFLE that I wrote, perhaps Ubuntu have
been messing around.
> First prize for me is a way to disable all the SSL stuff completely,
> as all this happens unattended so SSL is not that necessary.
To do this is easy, just configure WWWOFFLE with the
'--without-gnutls' option.
> For the moment I now run the master wwwoffle as the uucp user (ugh)
> and all instances share the certificates.
>
> Next best would be to be able to configure the certificate path, so I
> can have it as a different owner. 'strings' on the binary (have not
> looked at the source yet) suggests ownership and permissions of the
> certificates is important.
Certainly the ownership and permissions of the certificates are
important. A fake certificate can allow a lot of problems to be
caused.
--
Andrew.
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Andrew M. Bishop [EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/
WWWOFFLE users page:
http://www.gedanken.demon.co.uk/wwwoffle/version-2.9/user.html
