RE: zebedee service / logged id truncated

"Neil Winton" <neil.winton-XZoyATsUNX5Wk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Sun, 11 Jan 2004 15:56:39 -0000
Newsgroups gmane.comp.security.zebedee.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

> I set up Zebedee under Windows 2000 SP4 and wasted some life time to
> discover, that you have to use absolute paths on ANY include or other
> file reference used in your config files, if you want zebedee to run as
> a service.
> The example config files do suggest something like include './client.id'
> This does work, as long as you start Zebedee by command line i.e. from
> the install directory (zebedee -s -f tunnel.zbd). But as soon as I run
> it as a service the connection attempt would fail.

That's a good point, I should add that to the manual.

> The logging function truncates the identified client ids:
> ef8153a0e392df005f67321ca2f0ace5bb8c5a1f myhostname would become
> key identity matched: ef8153a0e392df005f67321ca2f0ace5bb8c5a1f myhostnam
> in the server log file.

It looks like it will do this if there is no newline on the end of the
client identity line. I was just trying to strip trailing newlines to stop
an extra blank line being printed in the log. I'll have to be a bit smarter
about that.

	Regards,
		Neil



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