[LON-CAPA-dev] Re: loncapa.conf

[Scott Harrison]

Dear Guy:

Ahhh...... obvious concern now I think...

    elsif ($buildmode==4) {
	if ($existence=~/no$/) {
	    exit(3);
	}
        elsif ($cvstime>0) {
	    exit(2);
	}
	elsif ($existence=~/^no/) {
	    exit(1);
	}
        else {
	    exit(0);
	}
    }

Because your /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf is newer than
CVS:loncom/loncapa.conf, the system assumes either that:
* the system administrator knows what he is doing and
  has changed the /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf file
* or more likely, the loncapa.conf file has been created
  from the existing CVS source
  (the time difference is natural since target is installed
   after a source update and install)

It's pretty easy to change the logic of any of this...
Let me know if you have any recommendations or ideas.

Regards,
Scott

Guy Albertelli II wrote:
> 
> Hi Scott,
> 
> > No quick ideas.
> >
> > The only files with the string "aliases" are httpd.conf and srm.conf.
> 
> The aliases thing is a misdirection it is just something an bash sheel
> says on startup (their .bashrc is screwy). And I have now fixed that
> sillyness.
> 
> > I might suggest seeing if it even runs the filecompare.pl script
> > (print TESTOUT "hello world"; inside filecompare.pl).
> 
> It does, make install runs fine and everything is updated. It is only
> configinstall that is strangely silent.
> 
> Running the command:
> perl filecompare.pl  ../../loncom/loncapa.conf /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf
> 
> Verbose: 1
> Show: all
> Processing for mode: files
> Location #1: ../../loncom/loncapa.conf
> Location #2: /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf
> ../../loncom/loncapa.conf       existence: yes:yes      cvstime: n/a
> age: 2209                       md5sum: different       size: -1
> lines: -1                       diffs: 0:1
> 
> However
> perl filecompare.pl -b4 ../../loncom/loncapa.conf /etc/httpd/conf/loncapa.conf
> 
> Prints nothing, and has a return code of 0, shouldn't it be something
> else?
> 
> > I'm happy to visit briefly today if it helps iron out one
> > of life's many 20 minute questions.
> 
> I'd like that if this doesn't give you enough ifo to solve it.
> 
> Feel free to log the restore configurations thing into the bugzilla
> database.
> --
> albertel@msu.edu        BM: n^20 t20 z20 qS
> Guy Albertelli -7-9-8-  O-
>     ...nobody messed with Don Quixote. He was nuts.

-- 
Scott Harrison -- Graduate Student
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics
Mich. State. Univ., East Lansing, MI
harris41@msu.edu, 517-353-0998