Re: What are canlocks?

On Sun, Jan 06, 2013 at 03:30:54PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> > > I'm getting a message from tin when I post saying "Can't open
> > > .cancelsecret", this apparently relates to canlocks.
> > A mechanism to prevent forged cancels, but they must also be
> > implemented on the servers side (wich is rarely the case)
> > to protect the users articles.
> OK, thanks.  So do I need to worry about the error message or is it just
> telling me I haven't got any cancel locks in use?  If I create the

your tin binarie was built with cancel-lock enabled (there currently is
no config option to turn it off later on) AND debugging support (when build
with debugging several additional warning/error messages are shown like this
one).

> missing file (with nothing in it) will the error disappear?

yes, an empty .cancelsecret file should work (no error mesage shown AND no
Cancel-Lock created) -> "touch ~/.cancelsecret"

urs
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