Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 21:41:55 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu> To: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Port: mpack-1.6 Message-ID: <2DE2300991B77F444E54D040@Paul-Schmehls-Computer.local> In-Reply-To: <20060301031021.GA91549@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <44050D77.2030503@j2d.lam.net.au> <20060301031021.GA91549@xor.obsecurity.org>
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--On February 28, 2006 10:10:22 PM -0500 Kris Kennaway
<kris@obsecurity.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006 at 01:56:55PM +1100, Nik Lam wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having trouble running the latest mpack (1.6) on FreeBSD 5.4.
>>
>> It was installed using portupgrade.
>>
>> Whenever I try to send a file I get a No such file or directory error
>> preceded by a pipe character.
>>
>> e.g.
>>
>> > mpack -s"example" abc nik@sublimeip.com
>> | : No such file or directory
>>
>>
>> I've included most of the ktrace output below - there are references to
>> /usr/tmp/ - a directory which does not exist.
>
> Yeah, looks like it does this for some strange reason:
>
> if (getenv("TMPDIR")) {
> strcpy(fnamebuf, getenv("TMPDIR"));
> }
> else {
> strcpy(fnamebuf, "/usr/tmp");
> }
>
Well, this is very weird.
/usr/ports/converters/mpack/work/mpack-1.6]# grep "TMPDIR" *
README.unix: TMPDIR
README.unix: TMPDIR
README.unix: are stored in subdirectories of $TMPDIR/m-prts-$USER/
mkreadme.pl: TMPDIR
mkreadme.pl: TMPDIR
mkreadme.pl: are stored in subdirectories of $TMPDIR/m-prts-$USER/
unixos.c: if (getenv("TMPDIR")) {
unixos.c: strcpy(buf, getenv("TMPDIR"));
unixpk.c: if (getenv("TMPDIR")) {
unixpk.c: strcpy(fnamebuf, getenv("TMPDIR"));
unixpk.man:.B TMPDIR
unixunpk.man:.B TMPDIR
unixunpk.man:.B $TMPDIR/m-prts-$USER/
/usr/ports/converters/mpack/work/mpack-1.6]# grep "/tmp" *
README.unix: Directory to store temporary files. Default "/tmp".
README.unix: reassembly. Default is "/usr/tmp". Partial messages
mkreadme.pl: Directory to store temporary files. Default "/tmp".
mkreadme.pl: reassembly. Default is "/usr/tmp". Partial messages
mkreadme.pl: reassembly. Default is "/tmp" which UnixLib should do
unixos.c: strcpy(buf, "/usr/tmp");
unixpk.c: strcpy(fnamebuf, "/usr/tmp");
unixpk.man:Directory to store temporary files. Default is /usr/tmp.
unixunpk.man:Directory to store temporary files. Default is /usr/tmp.
Looks like they couldn't make up their mind what to do.
I'll submit patches in a few minutes.
Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Adjunct Information Security Officer
University of Texas at Dallas
AVIEN Founding Member
http://www.utdallas.edu/
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