Re: Remote IP for inetd "daemon"

["Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@wcug.wwu.edu>]

On Wed, 19 Sep 2001, Robert Waldner wrote:

> >Then compile it with "gcc -o getpeername getpeername.c". Then use the
> >getpeername executable in your script.
> 
> Hmm, this doesn´t work for me. If I invoke it via
> inetd.conf:
> sunrpc stream tcp nowait nobody /usr/local/bin/test.sh test.sh
> 
> test.sh:
> #!/bin/bash
> /usr/local/bin/getpeername >>/tmp/peer.ip
> exit
> 
> only a \n is logged to the file (so permissions et al are ok ;-) ).

The shell changes the standard input; try:

PEER=`/home/reed/src/getpeername`
echo $PEER >> /tmp/peer.ip

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