Re: saned won't run under inetd

From: Petter Reinholdtsen (pere@hungry.com)
Date: Thu May 10 2001 - 14:24:41 PDT

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[Morten Sickel]
> but if I try to start saned from inetd, xsane comes up, scans for
> devices and just dies with a segfault.

Sounds like the same problem I ran into setting up a scanner server.
There is a bug somewhere leading to this behaviour. I solved it by
starting saned with this shell script wrapper, and running it instead
from inetd:

  #!/bin/sh
  #
  # Call saned with stderr redirected, to avoid strange crash.

  #export SANE_DEBUG_NET=255
  #export SANE_DEBUG_DLL=255
  #export SANE_DEBUG_HP=255

  exec 2> /dev/null

  exec /usr/local/sbin/saned

My guess is that the code to test if stderr is a socket fails in some
strange way. (I wrote it, I guess I should know -- but I don't. :-) I
tried to redirect stderr to a file to find out if anything was written
to it, but the file was empty.

I do not understand why this worked for me. :-/

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