[Serusers] SER 0.8.14 bug report

[Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul]

On Sep 01, 2004 at 20:14, Andrei Pelinescu-Onciul <pelinescu-onciul at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > 
> > Upon run it reports WARNING: could not read from /dev/random.
> > Under OpenBSD, /dev/random is reserved for hardware RNG's. Use
> > /dev/arandom (or /dev/urandom) instead.
> 
> Yes, I consider switching to /dev/urandom on all archs.

Done (on unstable cvs).
> > 
> > There is confusion over whether the config file is /etc/ser.cfg or
> > /etc/ser/ser.cfg. The ser man page erroneously says the -f default is
> > ./ser.cfg instead of /etc/...
> 
> The default config file is /usr/local/etc/ser/ser.cfg on solaris, *bsd
> or linux (if you build it by hand). If you use a linux package (deb or
> rpm) the config is in /etc/ser/ser.cfg and ser is installed directly in
> /usr.
> > 
> > man page errors:
> > Under FILES:
> > it lists /etc/ser/ser.cfg instead of /etc/ser.cfg -which is correct?
> > Also,    /usr/sbin/ser            should be   /usr/local/sbin/ser
> > Also,    /usr/lib/ser/modules/*   is really   /usr/local/lib/ser/modules/*
> 
> Well this is because the path is different depending on how you install
> it. Since most people use pre-packaged versions, or compile the package
> themselves this works for them.
> Some on-man-page install sed script would be needed to fix this.

Done (on unstable cvs).

Andrei