Re: [Gnumed-devel] write documents

[Karsten Hilbert]

On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 05:34:06PM +0530, address@hidden wrote:

> What does this mean?
> 
> received signal from client: "statustext"
>     [msg]: Script must be readable by the calling user only (permissions
> "0600"): [C:\Users\Vaibhav\.gnumed\scripts\hook_script.py].
>     [sender]: None

At various times during running the code GNUmed calls an
external "hook" script. This happens after certain actions
took place in the user interface:

        u'post_patient_activation',
        u'post_person_creation',

        u'shutdown-post-GUI',
        u'startup-after-GUI-init',
        u'startup-before-GUI',

        u'request_user_attention',
        u'app_activated_startup',
        u'app_activated',
        u'app_deactivated',

        u'after_substance_intake_modified',
        u'after_test_result_modified',
        u'after_soap_modified',

        u'after_new_doc_created',
        u'before_print_doc',
        u'before_fax_doc',
        u'before_mail_doc',
        u'before_print_doc_part',
        u'before_fax_doc_part',
        u'before_mail_doc_part',
        u'before_external_doc_access',

        u'db_maintenance_warning'

Whenever one of those hooks is reached GNUmed executes the
hook script. That way the user can configure GNUmed to take
any action the desire. The wiki has a full explanation of
the hooks system.

Now, since the hook script is an external file GNUmed tries
to take at least *some* security checking - in this case it
looks at the permissions of the hook script and makes sure
that it is accessible by the owning user only (permissions
0600 in UNIX speak). If that is not the case it will refuse
the run the script and shows the above warning.

Karsten
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