Hi,
The signature checking script on lists.debian.org (for automatic posts to
debian-{security,devel}-announce) tends to hang indefinitely while db.d.o is
down, at the same time sitting on the CPU (!).
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~list/.bin]% diff -u sigcheck{,-joy}|less
--- sigcheck Tue May 6 03:23:09 2003
+++ sigcheck-joy Sat Jul 19 11:26:36 2003
@@ -53,8 +53,16 @@
ErrType = EX_TEMPFAIL;
ErrMsg = "An error occurred while performing the LDAP lookup:";
global l;
- l = ldap.open(LDAPServer);
- l.simple_bind_s("","");
+ try:
+ l = ldap.open(LDAPServer);
+ except SystemError:
+ print "Cannot connect to LDAP server.";
+ sys.exit(1);
+ try:
+ l.bind(LDAPDn, "", ldap.AUTH_SIMPLE);
+ except ldap.SERVER_DOWN:
+ print "Cannot connect to LDAP server.";
+ sys.exit(1);
# Search for the matching key fingerprint
verbmsg("Processing fingerprint %s" % FingerPrint)
How does that sound? This is basically guesswork, but it should make some
sense, judging by the patch I just saw tbm post for a similar script in the
qa CVS repo.
Those Err{Msg,Type} have some significance (it seems like a global error
handler of some sort, looking at the except: case below) but this failure
is apparently not an EX_TEMPFAIL and I don't know what it is. :)
(One may notice that I also changed the first attribute of the bind()
function to include the existing LDAPDn variable... I don't know why it
would work without it (possibly due to the old slapd on samosa), and it
seems cleaner with it.)
--
2. That which causes joy or happiness.
