Using the SmartServer of v0.15 with xinetd

[Martin Pool]

On 4/13/07, Thomas Ackermann <thomas.ackermann at anykey.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i tried the following to get bzr running as daemon under xinetd:
>
> localhost:/etc/xinetd.d # cat bzr
> service bzr
> {
>          server_args     = serve --inet --directory=/home/archive/bzr
>          log_on_success  += DURATION USERID
>          log_on_failure  += USERID
>          nice            = 10
>          disable         = no
>          socket_type     = stream
>          protocol        = tcp
>          wait            = no
>          user            = bzruser
>          server          = /usr/local/bin/bzr
>          port            = 22618
> }
>
>
> localhost:/etc/xinetd.d # /etc/init.d/xinetd stop
> Shutting down xinetd:                                                 done
> localhost:/etc/xinetd.d # /etc/init.d/xinetd start
> Starting INET services. (xinetd)                                      done
>
>
> localhost:/etc/xinetd.d # grep -i bzr /var/log/messages | tail -1
> Apr 12 17:30:32 austria073 xinetd[22967]: Reading included configuration
> file: /etc/xinetd.d/bzr [file=/etc/xinetd.conf] [line=26]
>
> localhost:/ # cd ~bzruser/
>
> localhost:/home/archive/bzr # ls
> total 8
> -rw-r--r--  1 bzruser users 51 Apr 12 16:57 README.txt
> -rw-r--r--  1 bzruser users 25 Apr 12 17:01 logme
>
> localhost:/home/archive/bzr # bzr status
> unknown:
>    .bash_history
>    .bazaar/
>    .bzr.log
>    logme
>
>
> And now, i try to talk to the bzr daemon:
>
>
> localhost:/home/archive/bzr # bzr log bzr://localhost:22618
> bzr: ERROR: Generic bzr smart protocol error: unexpected smart server
> error: ("failed to open trace file: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/root/.bzr.log'",)
>
> localhost:/home/archive/bzr # su - bzruser
> bzruser at austria073:~> bzr log bzr://localhost:22618
> bzr: ERROR: Generic bzr smart protocol error: unexpected smart server
> error: ("failed to open trace file: [Errno 13] Permission denied:
> '/root/.bzr.log'",)
>
>
> What?s up?!?!
>
> This file exists - but is not available to "bzruser", also even if i
> make it readable to "bzruser" the same error occurs :-(
>
> Any idea?
>
> Everything runs fine with a dedicated server ...

Hi Thomas,

The problem is that the code tries to create a log file in the home
directory.  This is ok for a regular program but doesn't make so much
sense for a server, so I filed
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bzr/+bug/106117

I think you can fix this by setting $HOME to the home directory of
bzruser.  I think that's possible in xinetd, but I don't remember how
off hand.

-- 
Martin