Shara Gnaneshan wrote: > I downloaded base-1.2.17b.tar.gz and and trying to install in our Linux > system for test > purposes and when running make getting an error and installation fails. > > Error: > [...] parse error before `struct' > > Our system specs: > > An old sun server running its own Linux system (probably Redhat 7) Info from > uname -a > is Linux lx2 2.4.20-28.7.SLbigmem
Hi there. The bad news is that your compiler predates the C99 standard. The good news is that a while back I fixed that problem, and I'm attaching a version of jobRunner.c that should compile on your system. //Carl -- Carl Troein - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.thep.lu.se/~carl/
// $Id: jobRunner.c,v 1.7 2005/12/09 18:25:17 troein Exp $ // // BioArray Software Environment (BASE) - homepage http://base.thep.lu.se/ // Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Carl Troein // // This file is part of BASE. // // BASE is free software; you can redistribute it and/or // modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License // as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 // of the License, or (at your option) any later version. // // BASE is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, // but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of // MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the // GNU General Public License for more details. // // You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License // along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software // Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. // // This program is to be installed as suid basejob (or whatever you // choose to call that user). It takes the first argument to be the // name of a plugin to run and subsequent arguments to be arguments // to that program, just like nice or time or whatnot. The plugin is // then run as the basejob user rather than the base user. If used // correctly, this will protect your BASE installation against broken // or malicious plugins, as well as against anyone who has managed to // gain access to the plugin definition page in BASE. #ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H #include <config.h> #endif #include <unistd.h> #include <stdio.h> #include <stdlib.h> #include <errno.h> #include <signal.h> #include <sys/types.h> #include <sys/time.h> #include <sys/resource.h> extern int errno; #ifndef BASE_USER_UID #error BASE_USER_UID must be defined (as the UID of the BASE user) #endif #ifndef JOBRUNNER_USER_UID #error JOBRUNNER_USER_UID must be defined (as the UID of the BASE job user) #endif int main(int argc, char **argv) { uid_t uid, euid; struct rlimit rl; int cpulim; long ramlim; if(argc < 5) { fprintf(stderr, "jobRunner: too few arguments\n" "Usage: jobRunner nice maxCPU maxRAM program [options...]\n" "May only be run by uid %d, euid %d\n", BASE_USER_UID, JOBRUNNER_USER_UID); errno = EINVAL; return 125; } if(BASE_USER_UID != JOBRUNNER_USER_UID) { uid = getuid(); if(uid != BASE_USER_UID) { fprintf(stderr, "jobRunner: may only be run by user %d " "(current uid: %d)\n", BASE_USER_UID, uid); errno = EINVAL; return 125; } euid = geteuid(); if(euid != JOBRUNNER_USER_UID) { fprintf(stderr, "jobRunner: the effective (suid) UID must be %d " "(current euid: %d)\n", JOBRUNNER_USER_UID, euid); errno = EPERM; return 125; } if(setreuid(euid, (uid_t)-1)) { perror("jobRunner: Unable to setreuid()"); return 125; } } // signal(SIGHUP, SIG_IGN); nice(atoi(argv[1])); cpulim = atoi(argv[2]); if(cpulim >= 0) { rl.rlim_cur = cpulim; rl.rlim_max = cpulim; setrlimit(RLIMIT_CPU, &rl); } ramlim = strtol(argv[3], NULL, 0); /*#ifdef RLIMIT_AS rl.rlim_cur = ramlim; rl.rlim_max = ramlim; setrlimit(RLIMIT_AS, &rl); #else*/ rl.rlim_cur = ramlim; rl.rlim_max = ramlim; setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, &rl); rl.rlim_cur = ramlim / 4; rl.rlim_max = ramlim / 4; setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rl); //#endif execvp(argv[4], argv + 4); perror("jobRunner: plugin failed to execute"); return 125; }
