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Re: ITP: thttpd



Hi,

At Fri, 3 Sep 1999 11:45:23 +0200,
KELEMEN Peter <Peter.Kelemen@cern.ch> wrote:

Thank you for your infomation.

> > I want to make "thttpd" package.  Thttpd's copyright is ``AS IS''

> As I recall, Mark Eichin was the first who attempted packaging thttpd.
> Then he gave up on it as the traffic shaping stuff was directly
> available in the 2.2.x kernel series.

I see. But I want to use thttpd not only traffic shaping but also
its fast and secure feature. 

> When I gave it a look, I found out that thttpd runs chroot()ed which is
> kind of a trouble when users want to put up their personal homepages.
> The makeweb(1) tool that is included in the thttpd distribution is a
> setuid binary for setting up user web directories under the chroot()ed
> environment.  YMMV.

OK, I try to package considering considering your notes.
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ARAKI Yasuhiro  yasu@debian.or.jp


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