Re: [mv] Still struggling with mv4 installation.

[Ed LaFrance <newmedia@newmediaems.com>]

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At 07:30 AM 3/25/00 -0800, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "Bill Randle" 
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>
>On Mar 25,  2:09pm, Hans-Joachim Leidinger wrote:
>} Subject: Re: [mv] Still struggling with mv4 installation.
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>} Bill Randle schrieb:
>} [DEL the fine description of the MV server starting]
>}
>} WOW! Wonderful!
>}
>} > So, the big question is why is flock() on the PID file failing in
>} > FreeBSD but working on all the other Unix OS's? I don't have an
>} > answer, as I don't have a FreeBSD system to look at. Your directory
>} > permission in etc look OK and it didn't fail in creating the file.
>}
>} Hmmm... the permission in etc look OK, but Ed has said, it has a wrong
>} group/user name. _This_ cause the failure in my FreeBSD. If i stop the
>} MV server, use the chown command to set right group/user name and start
>} the MV server again, it works fine.
>
>The minivend files and directories can be owned by *any* user/group,
>but the key thing is they need to be consistent. There's three things
>to check:
>         1. the owner and group of the files and dirs in <minivend-root>
>         2. the userid and group that you start minivend as
>         3. the owner and group of the vlink/tlink files (typically
>            renamed to myshop.cgi)
>
>All three of the above must be the same. The vlink/tlink programs run
>suid so that when called by the http server, they get the permissions
>of the owner of the minivend files to allow communicating to the
>main minivend program.
>
>With that said, however, the vlink/tlink programs do not enter into the
>problem Ed is having. At this phase in the startup sequence, it's
>just trying to start the server. Permission problems with vlink/tlink
>would show up later when you actually tried to access a pgae via the
>web server.
>
>Since the files/directories are all owned by user 'visprox', are you
>running the minivend --start command as user visprox?

Yes Bill, I am starting it as user 'visprox' - I have no other account on 
that server.

Your detailed explanation towards the startup process may go a long way 
towards figuring out the source of this problem.  I have forwarded all your 
comments - including this one - to my technical contact at the ISP, who has 
vowed to work on the issue with me.  There is only so much that I can do.

Thanks again -

Ed L.




>My guess is,
>you are, otherwise things would have failed earlier when trying to
>create the pid file initially.
>
>         -Bill
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