[LON-CAPA-admin] Post Server Announcements (error: 13)

[Stuart Raeburn]

Paul,

This is an OS error code (13 is  Permission denied) which is reported  
by IO::File->new() when lond attempted to write to:

/home/httpd/html/announcement.txt on the ndsua1 server.

What are the ownership/permissions on this file and the  
/home/httpd/html directory?

They should be:

drwxr-xr-x   www  www   .
-rw-r--r--   www  www   announcement.txt

Looking at the LON-CAPA code it appears that nothing is logged if the  
result of the call to IO::File->new() is anything other than true,  
although the OS error code is returned and displayed by  
/adm/announcements (as you reported).

Stuart Raeburn
MSU LON-CAPA group
helpdesk at loncapa.org



Quoting Paul Omernik <paul.omernik at ndsu.edu>:

> When I attempt to clear this summer's course announcements from the servers,
> I receive this note:
>
> Posting ndsua1: error: 13
>>
>
> The library and other access server do not suffer from this symptom, and the
> two access servers are set up identically.  I have checked the hosts and
> domain.tab files, lonc and lond logs, hosts (etc), iptables, and ran out of
> ideas.
>
>
> Paul Omernik
>