On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Piete Brooks wrote:

The first arg of brutessl is the file from which to read the config info. "-" is a unix convention for the file "stdin".

OK - I dig this, but brutessl on my Linux box is still complaining about usage...(sorry about the bandwidth but I assume other people are probably having similar problems) + eval brclient -dklLtssl|(read a;nice -20 brutessl - $a)|(read a;echo $a 1>&2; echo $a) |brclient -AlLtssl ++ brclient -dklLtssl ++ brclient -AlLtssl ++ read a ++ read a ++ nice -20 brutessl - usage: brutessl [-q] <filename> <checksum> <start segment> <no of segments> brutessl [-q] -r <filename> [<no of segments>] brutessl [-q] -t [<hours>[:<minutes>]] -Thomas

On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Piete Brooks wrote:

That's the problem -- "brclient -dklLtssl" failed to return any keys, [ congestion of the server :-((( ] so brutessl was called with just the "-" which brloop put there.

I see that can happen, but there is also: ++ brclient -dklLtssl ++ brclient -AlLtssl ++ read a ++ read a ++ nice -20 brutessl - 2977 d42f 1 usage: brutessl [-q] <filename> <checksum> <start segment> <no of segments> brutessl [-q] -r <filename> [<no of segments>] brutessl [-q] -t [<hours>[:<minutes>]] ++ echo Where apparently I did get d42f, but brutessl 1.02 choked - I am going to take the advic of the other poster and add the "--" to the command. Again this is on a Linux box. I suggest that other Linuxers check their logfile for this behaviour. -Thomas

On Thu, 24 Aug 1995, Tom Gillman wrote:

Use 'nice -20 brutessl -- -' instead. The '--' tells getopts() not to parse anything else as arguments, then the next '-' will be interpreted correctly.

I made the change, and while it still chokes when you call brutessl without keys (a feature, right?), it DOES work when you get a valid keyspace. So Linux people might want to change the command in brloop if you are getting the same problems I was: #:10: the actual command to do the work .... cmd="${cmd-$brclient -dklLt$type|(read a;nice -20 $brute$type -- - \$a)|(read a; [Huh, like, I wrote more code ;] -Thomas

Ah, found the problem. where is that "-" coming from??? [Linux]

brloop in the shell variable "cmd". #:10: the actual command to do the work .... cmd="${cmd-$brclient -dklLt$type|(read a;nice -20 $brute$type - \$a)|(read a; echo ' '\$a 1>&2; echo \$a) |$brclient -AlLt$type}"

++ nice -20 brutessl - 2977 d42f 1 usage: brutessl [-q] <filename> <checksum> <start segment> <no of segments> brutessl [-q] -r <filename> [<no of segments>] brutessl [-q] -t [<hours>[:<minutes>]]

I've stopped it until I can get that fixed. brclient is way huge now...I can't see how to get rid of the "-".

"-" is the name of the <filename> -- it's a unix convention for "stdin". brutessl 1.0 was incompatible with bruterc4 -- that was the reason for releasing brutessl 1.01 If you are stuck with brutessl 1.0, fix cmd to be #:10: the actual command to do the work .... cmd="${cmd-$brclient -dklLt$type|(read a;nice -20 $brute$type -- - \$a)|(read a; echo ' '\$a 1>&2; echo \$a) |$brclient -AlLt$type}" i.e. prefix the "-" with "-- "