[LON-CAPA-admin] create/modify a user

[Stuart Raeburn]

Bob,

> Everything I've tested seems to work fine except for 'Search for a user and
> modify/add user information or roles' under 'User Management'.

The most likely reason is that the allusers table in the MySQL loncapa  
database has yet to be populated.

That can be done by running /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl as user www.

However, you should first check to see that it is not already running,  
since when you run ./UPDATE to install or update LON-CAPA, the final  
action is to issue a command to queue running of the script after 5  
minutes have elapsed.

su -c /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl - www | at now + 5 minutes

The command

ps -ef |grep searchcat |grep -v grep

will tell you if it is currently running.


There is also an entry in /etc/cron.d/loncapa
10 1 * * 2,4,6    www    /home/httpd/perl/searchcat.pl

which runs this script every other night.


Stuart Raeburn
LON-CAPA Academic Consortium


Quoting Bob Gonzales <rgonzal at binghamton.edu>:

> I just moved my library server to a virtual machine in my institution's
> cluster a couple of days ago.  This was a fresh install of Centos 7.2 and
> Lon-capa 2.11.1.  The /home directory was copied over from the old server
> with rsync as per the instructions for doing a hardware upgrade.
>
> Everything I've tested seems to work fine except for 'Search for a user and
> modify/add user information or roles' under 'User Management'.
>
> Searching with the criteria 'in selected LON-CAPA domain' does not work
> with any of the available criteria choices.
>
> The error message from lon-capa is:
>
> "No exact match found for the last name *gonzales* in LON-CAPA domain:
> binghamton (Binghamton University)"
>
> Searching with 'in this course' as the criteria works fine with the other
> criteria.
>
> The 'Add/modify a single user (create new user if required)' uses the
> domain and it works fine.  It searches with 'username'.
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions on what I could look at to get this
> working?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Gonzales
> Chemistry Dept
> Binghamton University
>