Re: CyberCash and how Minivend is screwed up

[Patrick Schoonveld <pschoonveld@venux.net>]

Hrm.... perhaps thats why it was freaking for me in FreeBSD...... 
interesting....

"Cameron B. Prince" wrote:
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from "Cameron B. Prince" <cameron@ans-2.ala-net.com>     ******
> 
> Great Patrick,
> 
> You are tha man!
> 
> I appreciate your help this morning. I got MiniVend working with CyberCash
> after following your instructions. However, MiniVend still fails to verify
> the credit cards. I tracked this to a problem with the MCK perl modules.
> While editing the perl script, I found where is calls those binaries
> (encrypt & decrypt) so I decided to check permissions on those. The
> permissions were right so I ran them and got an error from the shell.
> (unable to execute binary file) I thought this may be some kind of special
> permissions deal on these RaQ so I could only execute cgi and shell
> scripts. I had the same problem extracting the CyberCash MCK originally. I
> had to FTP it to another server, extract, tar and FTP it back. I e-mailed
> support and got a reply from the admins. They told me they couldn't even
> run the encrypt/decrypt as root. Well, after much communication with
> CyberCash and the ISP, we determined that it is caused by the MIPS
> processors used in the Cobalt RaQ servers. The code for the encrypt/decrypt
> was compiled for i386 processors only and they have no version compatible
> with MIPS.
> 
> So I called Dell up and ordered us a rack mount PIII 500MHz system with
> RAID3 and Dual NICs. I asked for RedHat v6.0 with Apache SSL to be
> installed. It cost them quiet a bit, but it's a MAJOR upgrade from running
> on the Cobalts. We were leary of their performance anyway.
> 
> When I get the new box, I will install MiniVend and CyberCash and try
> again. I'll keep your note handy because it sounds like I'll need it.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Cameron B. Prince
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:   Patrick Schoonveld [SMTP:pschoonveld@venux.net]
> Sent:   Tuesday, July 20, 1999 3:16 PM
> To:     minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject:        CyberCash and how Minivend is screwed up
> 
> ******    message to minivend-users from Patrick Schoonveld
> <pschoonveld@venux.net>     ******
> 
> Well, I have made several postings relating my frustrations with
> CyberCash and minivend.
> 
> All that was happening was that minivend was finding a blank emptiness
> instead of a credit card number and sending that to cybercash. Well, I
> dug in and out of Order.pm to find the number never made it there. I dug
> in and out of the minivend executable in the bin directory and found
> that it was disappearing before it got sent to cyber_charge() (the
> function that executes a CyberCash charge). I tried turning off the
> CreditCardAuto in the catalog.cfg to turn off the encryption. This only
> stopped the ValidateCC from making sure it was a valid card. Needless to
> say, I ended up commenting out the encrypt_standard_cc function in the
> minivend executable and its works great.
> 
> I just wonder how anyone else got cybercash running under 3.14.
> 
> And I wonder why the heck no one ever responds to serious requests like
> this in the mailing list.
> Ahhh... freeware.
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