On Sunday 17 June 2007, Rick Bilonick wrote: >On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 05:42 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Sunday 17 June 2007, Gene Heskett wrote: >> >On Sunday 17 June 2007, Rick Bilonick wrote: >> >>> Rick, post the 50 errors. Even if no one has tried to compile >> >>> portsentry, the errors might indicate the nature of the problem. >> >>> >> >>> No input,...no (or very little) helpful output. >> >>> >> >>> >> >>> -- >> >>> --R >> >>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> >>>-- /Linux, and Open Software, an alternative./ >> >>> Registered Unix <http://counter.li.org> user #409453 >> >> >> >>It wasn't quite 50 errors but here is the output: >> >> >> >>]# ls >> >>CHANGES portsentry.c portsentry_io.c README.COMPAT >> >>CREDITS portsentry.conf portsentry_io.h README.install >> >>ignore.csh portsentry_config.h portsentry_tcpip.h README.methods >> >>LICENSE portsentry.h portsentry_util.c README.stealth >> >>Makefile portsentry.ignore portsentry_util.h >> >>[root@bilonick portsentry_beta]# make linux >> >>SYSTYPE=linux >> >>Making >> >>cc -O -Wall -DLINUX -DSUPPORT_STEALTH -o ./portsentry ./portsentry.c \ >> >> ./portsentry_io.c ./portsentry_util.c >> >>./portsentry.c: In function ‘PortSentryModeTCP’: >> >>./portsentry.c:1187: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of >> >>‘accept’ differ in signedness >> >>./portsentry.c: In function ‘PortSentryModeUDP’: >> >>./portsentry.c:1384: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 6 of >> >>‘recvfrom’ differ in signedness >> >>./portsentry.c: In function ‘Usage’: >> >>./portsentry.c:1584: error: missing terminating " character >> >>./portsentry.c:1585: error: ‘sourceforget’ undeclared (first use in this >> >>function) >> >>./portsentry.c:1585: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only >> >>once >> >>./portsentry.c:1585: error: for each function it appears in.) >> >>./portsentry.c:1585: error: expected ‘)’ before ‘dot’ >> >>./portsentry.c:1585: error: stray ‘\’ in program >> >>./portsentry.c:1585: error: missing terminating " character >> >>./portsentry.c:1595: error: expected ‘;’ before ‘}’ token >> >>make: *** [linux] Error 1 >> > >> >As an old portsentry fan I had to go take a look at it again, and I found >> > that file's line 1585 to have been mangled by a line wrapper function in >> > somebodies editor. Pull the next line up to make a long line out of it, >> > and for completeness, delete the final t in "sourceforget". No idea >> > where that came from. Then see if it will build. >> > >> >And now I'm wondering if the whole archive file hasn't been compromised, >> > I just found another reference to sourceforget.net in the >> > README.install. There is such a site, but it has no connection to >> > portsentry. >> > >> >For that reason, I added craigrowland at users dot sourceforge dot net to >> > the To: list above. Maybe he can refresh that file on sourceforge and >> > restore our paranoia. However, I note that the bugtracker has an entry, >> > unresolved, dated in October of 2003, the year it was moved to >> > sourceforge. >> > >> >I liked portsentry. Between that, iptables and tcpwrappers, nothing got >> > past an old rh7.3 box I used for a firewall for 5 or 6 years. The logs >> > said many thousands tried though. But even that was cut back by 99.9% >> > when I got dsl, found roaring penguins PPPoE was crap and bought a >> > linksys BEFSR41 router. It then stopped the huge majority of that crap. >> > Now I'm using dd-wrt on another old box to replace both of those boxes, >> > and its just as bulletproof & uses 300 watts less power... >> >> And I regret to say that craigrowland at sourceforge dot net apparently >> aliases to crowland at cisco dot com, and then bounces with a 551, unknown >> user. I went to google and found him as Craig H. Rowland, but nothing >> newer than 2003 seems to be extant on the net, like he has simply ceased >> to exist. >> >> So fix it as above, but at this point it appears that code is in need of a >> new maintainer. The license is the CPL, not GPL, so read it carefully. >> >> >-- >> >Cheers, Gene >> >"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> >-Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> >My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my >> >life there. >> >> -- >> Cheers, Gene >> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: >> soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." >> -Ed Howdershelt (Author) >> Die, v.: >> To stop sinning suddenly. >> -- Elbert Hubbard > >portsentry appears to compile and install: > >###################################################### ># make linux >SYSTYPE=linux >Making >cc -O -Wall -DLINUX -DSUPPORT_STEALTH -o ./portsentry ./portsentry.c \ > ./portsentry_io.c ./portsentry_util.c >./portsentry.c: In function ‘PortSentryModeTCP’: >./portsentry.c:1187: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of >‘accept’ differ in signedness >./portsentry.c: In function ‘PortSentryModeUDP’: >./portsentry.c:1384: warning: pointer targets in passing argument 6 of >‘recvfrom’ differ in signedness > ># make install >Creating psionic directory /usr/local/psionic >Setting directory permissions >Creating portsentry directory /usr/local/psionic/portsentry >Setting directory permissions >chmod 700 /usr/local/psionic/portsentry >Copying files >cp ./portsentry.conf /usr/local/psionic/portsentry >cp ./portsentry.ignore /usr/local/psionic/portsentry >cp ./portsentry /usr/local/psionic/portsentry >Setting permissions >chmod 600 /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry.ignore >chmod 600 /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry.conf >chmod 700 /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry > > >Edit /usr/local/psionic/portsentry/portsentry.conf and change >your settings if you haven't already. (route, etc) > > >WARNING: This version and above now use a new >directory structure for storing the program >and config files (/usr/local/psionic/portsentry). >Please make sure you delete the old files when >the testing of this install is complete. > >######################################################### > >Now I will have to configure it. Any idea on how to keep apcupsd (which >uses port 3551 opened through the firewall) running? The ups is >connected by a usb cable. When portsentry was running under FC6, I could >not get apcupsd to run. I have it running on other systems not using >portsentry. > >Rick B. That particular item I can't help with, Rick, sorry. I don't have enough years left in my allotted time here (I'm already 72) to fight with selinux, so its turned off with the grub option in everything I own. And, while I do use apcupsd over a usb cable, the cable is plugged into a belkin ups, so other than querying it for status, its not working that well. Belkins own nvidia style software (a binary blob) quit working at about 2.6.20-rc2 or so, becoming a cpu hog I had to kill. I believe, but cannot prove, that some change to hiddev or to the serial protocol at about that time broke it. Both serial and usb setups now eat 90+% of the cpu the minute I attempt to extract any data to the rest of the system, either with their bulldog monitor, or with the gkrellmBups plugin. Now I have a request into Bill to see if he can interface gkrellm with apcupsd such that I once again have a realtime monitor, but that was a couple of months ago and I've seen no mention of it via his mailing list. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders. -- Nietzsche
