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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2016-07-03 02:56:00 UTC
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mandos-client: Bug fix: flush stdout to detect write errors.

* plugins.d/mandos-client.c (start_mandos_communication): Do
                            fflush(stdout) to detect any write errors.

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-ctl">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2010-09-25">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-06-27">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2010</year>
 
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      <year>2011</year>
 
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      <year>2012</year>
 
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      <year>2013</year>
 
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      <year>2014</year>
 
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      <year>2015</year>
 
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      <year>2016</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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  <refnamediv>
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    <refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
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    <refpurpose>
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      Control the operation of the Mandos server
 
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      Control or query the operation of the Mandos server
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    </refpurpose>
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  </refnamediv>
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--enable</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-e</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--disable</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-d</option></arg>
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      </group>
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      <sbr/>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--bump-timeout</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-b</option></arg>
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      </group>
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      <sbr/>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--start-checker</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--stop-checker</option></arg>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--remove</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-r</option></arg>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--checker
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        <replaceable>COMMAND</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-c
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        <replaceable>COMMAND</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--timeout
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        <replaceable>TIME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>TIME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--interval
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        <replaceable>TIME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>TIME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--host
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        <replaceable>STRING</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>STRING</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>FILENAME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>FILENAME</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <group>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--approve</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-A</option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--deny</option></arg>
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          <arg choice="plain"><option>--enable</option></arg>
 
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          <arg choice="plain"><option>--remove</option></arg>
 
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  <refsect1 id="description">
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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    <para>
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      >mandos</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
 
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> is a program to control or
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-clients.conf</refentrytitle>