[sane-devel] saned -d6 OK saned fails [GishPuppy]
Geoff Lane
bunsen at tesco.net
Wed Mar 19 14:53:17 UTC 2008
On 18 Mar 2008 at 10:27, m. allan noah wrote:
I have checked everything listed below and all looks fine.
Inetutils-inetd is shown (Via ps -Af) running as ROOT
What is puzzling me is the output of manually running saned with different values after
the d flag, d5 and above and it works, less than d5 and it doesn't work.
Output as follows;
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geoff at challenger:~$ saned -d1
[saned] main: [1] bind failed: Address already in use
geoff at challenger:~$ saned -d4
[saned] main: starting debug mode (level 4)
[saned] main: [1] bind failed: Address already in use
[saned] main: waiting for control connection
geoff at challenger:~$ saned -d5
[saned] main: starting debug mode (level 5)
[saned] main: trying to get port for service `sane-port' (getaddrinfo)
[saned] main: [0] socket () using IPv6
[saned] main: [0] setsockopt ()
[saned] main: [0] bind () to port 6566
[saned] main: [0] listen ()
[saned] main: [1] socket () using IPv4
[saned] main: [1] setsockopt ()
[saned] main: [1] bind () to port 6566
[saned] main: [1] bind failed: Address already in use
[saned] main: waiting for control connection
geoff at challenger:~$
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Geoff Lane
> reading the config line from right to left:
>
> listen on port 'saned', run program '/usr/sbin/saned' as user and
> group 'saned', and hand it the tcp stream.
>
> so, check that you have saned listed in /etc/services, the binary
> saned in /usr/sbin, the user saned in /etc/passwd, and the group saned
> in /etc/group. that should get inetd to actually listen on the port,
> and start the saned binary when you connect.
>
> now, the scanner device files have their own permissions, which are
> managed by various hotplug/udev type scripts, depending on the
> OS/distro. the user saned must have permission to read/write to these
> files as well. If your OS uses a 'scanner' group, you will probably
> have to add 'saned' user to that group. If your system uses some other
> mechanism, we will try to figure it out.
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