[LON-CAPA-admin] 7.3 install help

Scott Harrison sharrison at users.sourceforge.net
Thu Jan 2 20:35:28 EST 2003


Hi Lars,

httpd.conf should have been changed.

In the UPDATE script, there is a line called:
"make postinstall"

The "make postinstall" calls another target:
"make webserverconf"

which calls webserverconf.piml which generates the
following code
(as can be seen by,
 cd loncom/build; make LAUNCH='| more' webserverconf)

--beginsnippet--
  $flag=0;
  open(IN,'</etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf');
  while (<IN>) {
    if (/^\s*Include\s+conf\/loncapa_apache.conf/) {
      $flag=1;
    }
  }
  close(IN);
  unless ($flag==1) {
    open(OUT,'>>/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf');
    print(OUT 'Include conf/loncapa_apache.conf'."\n");
    close(OUT);
  }
--endsnippet--

So, would you please give a repeatable recipe for the error you are finding,
because I cannot figure it out with the information you have provided.

Regards,
Scott

On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:38:16PM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the info - didn't know the script would create the www user,
> so I already did it by hand. That seems to be working. I also ran the
> UPDATE script, getting no errors or warnings or anything! I still notice
> that my httpd.conf is unchanged. I assume I have to edit some
> configuration files after running UPDATE? Like the httpd.conf, and
> smb.comf. 
> 
> Do I have toedit any others?
> 
> The weather out here is fine today, but we have had a lot of snow storms
> this season.
> 
> Lars.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Mark Lucas wrote:
> 
> > Hi-
> > 
> > 	Are you doing a fresh install of loncapa from the tar file?
> > 
> > 	If you are using the instructions under 
> > http://install.lon-capa.org/docs/install/rh73.html
> > 
> > 	It will automatically create the www user in the script that
> > also installs any extra needed rpms. This is the route I've been doing
> > for fresh installs and it has been working well.
> > 
> > 	When copying passwd files, what I do (for better or worse) is
> > pwunconv on the original passwd/shadow file and the new file, merge the 
> > necessary entries, then pwconv. Probably more work than I need, but
> > it has behaved. I've had the luxury of rolling machines from one machine 
> > to another in the upgrades, so I have both up at once.
> > 
> > 	Check the system portion of the passwd files, but I think there
> > were some differences between 6.2 and 7.3.
> > 
> > 	How's the weather out there?
> > 
> > 				Later,
> > 					 Mark
> > 
> > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Lars Jensen wrote:
> > 
> > > Right now, I'm in the middle of the 7.3 configuration:
> > > 
> > > The 7.3 apache runs under user and group apache. Should I create a new
> > > user www and run apache as this user? If I don't, won't this create
> > > permission issues for several files in the home directory? 
> > > 
> > > How do I restore users and passwords/shadow passwords? Do I simply copy
> > > from the 6.2 passwd and group files? What about the shadow password
> > > files?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lars.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999. 
> > > Internet: <jensen at physics.unr.edu>, http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~jensen
> > > Tel: 775.673.7113  FAX: 775.674.7592
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > LON-CAPA-admin mailing list
> > > LON-CAPA-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
> > > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin
> > > 
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mark Lucas					email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
> > 252D Clippinger Lab  				phone: (740)597-2984
> > Department of Physics and Astronomy             fax:   (740)593-0433
> > Ohio University
> > Athens, OH 45701
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > LON-CAPA-admin mailing list
> > LON-CAPA-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
> > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin
> > 
> 
> --
> Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999. 
> Internet: <jensen at physics.unr.edu>, http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~jensen
> Tel: 775.673.7113  FAX: 775.674.7592
> 
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On Thu, Jan 02, 2003 at 04:38:16PM -0800, Lars Jensen wrote:
> Hi Mark,
> 
> Thanks for the info - didn't know the script would create the www user,
> so I already did it by hand. That seems to be working. I also ran the
> UPDATE script, getting no errors or warnings or anything! I still notice
> that my httpd.conf is unchanged. I assume I have to edit some
> configuration files after running UPDATE? Like the httpd.conf, and
> smb.comf. 
> 
> Do I have toedit any others?
> 
> The weather out here is fine today, but we have had a lot of snow storms
> this season.
> 
> Lars.
> 
> 
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Mark Lucas wrote:
> 
> > Hi-
> > 
> > 	Are you doing a fresh install of loncapa from the tar file?
> > 
> > 	If you are using the instructions under 
> > http://install.lon-capa.org/docs/install/rh73.html
> > 
> > 	It will automatically create the www user in the script that
> > also installs any extra needed rpms. This is the route I've been doing
> > for fresh installs and it has been working well.
> > 
> > 	When copying passwd files, what I do (for better or worse) is
> > pwunconv on the original passwd/shadow file and the new file, merge the 
> > necessary entries, then pwconv. Probably more work than I need, but
> > it has behaved. I've had the luxury of rolling machines from one machine 
> > to another in the upgrades, so I have both up at once.
> > 
> > 	Check the system portion of the passwd files, but I think there
> > were some differences between 6.2 and 7.3.
> > 
> > 	How's the weather out there?
> > 
> > 				Later,
> > 					 Mark
> > 
> > On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Lars Jensen wrote:
> > 
> > > Right now, I'm in the middle of the 7.3 configuration:
> > > 
> > > The 7.3 apache runs under user and group apache. Should I create a new
> > > user www and run apache as this user? If I don't, won't this create
> > > permission issues for several files in the home directory? 
> > > 
> > > How do I restore users and passwords/shadow passwords? Do I simply copy
> > > from the 6.2 passwd and group files? What about the shadow password
> > > files?
> > > 
> > > Thanks,
> > > Lars.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999. 
> > > Internet: <jensen at physics.unr.edu>, http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~jensen
> > > Tel: 775.673.7113  FAX: 775.674.7592
> > > 
> > > _______________________________________________
> > > LON-CAPA-admin mailing list
> > > LON-CAPA-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
> > > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin
> > > 
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Mark Lucas					email: lucasm at ohiou.edu
> > 252D Clippinger Lab  				phone: (740)597-2984
> > Department of Physics and Astronomy             fax:   (740)593-0433
> > Ohio University
> > Athens, OH 45701
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > LON-CAPA-admin mailing list
> > LON-CAPA-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
> > http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin
> > 
> 
> --
> Lars Jensen, TMCC/Vista B200, 7000 Dandini Blvd, Reno NV 89512-3999. 
> Internet: <jensen at physics.unr.edu>, http://www.scsr.nevada.edu/~jensen
> Tel: 775.673.7113  FAX: 775.674.7592
> 
> _______________________________________________
> LON-CAPA-admin mailing list
> LON-CAPA-admin at mail.lon-capa.org
> http://mail.lon-capa.org/mailman/listinfo/lon-capa-admin
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