[OpenSER-Devel] Serious issue

[Dan Pascu]

I got these error messages while running openser -c to check the 
configuration:

Nov  2 19:29:44 [10055] ERROR:mi_datagram:mi_destroy: cannot delete the 
socket (/var/run/openser/socket): Permission denied
Nov  2 19:29:44 [10055] ERROR:mi_fifo:mi_destroy: cannot delete the fifo 
(/var/run/openser/fifo): Permission denied

As it seems, trying to check the configuration will attempt to remove the 
fifo and socket files. Fortunately I didn't have enough privileges to 
remove those files as the user I was when checking the config, but I 
recall that I noticed repeatedly that my fifo and socket files were gone 
and couldn't explain why.

Trying to remove them while just checking for the configuration is wrong. 
I may have a server already running and I only want to make sure the new 
config is OK before I attempt to restart it. We even have this check in 
the debian init.d file before restarts to make sure we won't restart 
unless the config is valid. But with this behavior, the running server 
will be crippled by any attempt to simply check the configuration.

Those files shouldn't be removed, even on a normal start, unless openser 
is sure it is not already running. Else it will error that it cannot bind 
to the SIP socket and fail to start, but will cripple at the same time an 
already running server.

-- 
Dan