Re: [mv] Permissions seem correct, but server is not available regardless [mv4]

[Ed LaFrance <edl@newmediaems.com>]

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At 11:19 AM 6/16/00 -0700, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from "March Roseland" 
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>
>Greetings!
>
>     We've had two catalogs on 3.14 running just fine, but now we've
>installed 4 on a different box (because it has ssl) and I can't seem to get
>it to work.  I've made two catalogs straight from the demo, and neither
>works.
>
>First, the stats:
>
>     NetBSD 1.4.2
>     Perl 5.005
>     Apache 1.3.9
>
>     When I created the catalogs and tried to start minivend, neither could
>find the required usertags listed at the bottom of the catalog.cfg file.  I
>ended up having to comment them out to get minivend to at least think it was
>configuring the catalogs.  This seemed odd to me; most minivend stuff is in
>/usr/local/minivend; the catalogs are in /usr/local/minivend/catalogs.  For
>example, /usr/local/minivend/catalogs/simple.  the usertags directory
>started out in /usr/local/minivend, and I've tried it in
>/usr/local/minivend/catalogs and in /usr/local/minivend/catalogs/simple.  In
>none of those three locations could minivend find the usertags when
>configuring.  I tried editing the catalog.cfg to use various paths to them,
>just in case, but that didn't work either.  In the mail archives I found a
>reference to the problem, but the only solutions given were really an
>explanation: minivend can't find the usertags.  That I'd figured out -- but
>how can I make it find them?
>
>     So, at present, all the required usertags at the bottom of the
>catalog.cfg are commented out.  However, the bigger problem is that I cannot
>persuade the thing to stop giving me the 'We're sorry, but the minivend
>server is unavailable' message.  I have read through the documentation and
>archives, and tried everything I found, made sure that all the permissions
>matched what's there, tried chmod-ing the socket to 666, etc, but nothing
>works.  Has anyone any ideas at all on what might cause this?  Anything more
>that I can try?  Has anyone run into this problem before, and solved it?
>I'd deeply appreciate any assistance anyone might be able to offer.  If you
>need more information on anything, please ask.  There don't seem to be any
>hints in the error.log either.  It only has recorded the same errors I saw
>on screen -- that it can't find the usertags.
>
>Many thanks,

Hi -

Try going to your cgi-bin and at the prompt:

chmod u+s catalogname

...where catalogname is the name of the cgi-file for your catalog.

- Ed L.
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