Re: [Lurker-users] buildling cvs

[Kevin B. <co...@co...>]

"Wesley W. Terpstra" wrote:
> 
> 
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 08:46:51AM -0400, Kevin Brosius wrote:
> > I should be able to run lurkerd as a regular user, right?  I had to give
> > it permissions for the web directories, (everything is in group 'www'),
> > and it runs okay, however when I try to use the web browser I see:
> >
> > ----
> > lurker - error rendering page:
> >
> > Unable to create cache file (index.html): Permission denied
> 
> The lurker.cgi must have permission to write files in the splash, message,
> etc directories. Set the cgi as

That was the problem, thank you.

For completeness, the owner of lurkerd and apache need to be able to
write files in those directories, correct?

On SuSE, Apache runs as uid:wwwrun,gid:nogroup.  Running lurkerd under
it's own account was a big part of my problem.  The lurker.cgi ran with
Apache authority, creating files under wwwrun/nogroup.  But lurkerd was
running as lurker/users.  One of the problems I saw was failure of
lurkerd to delete cache files, because they are created by lurker.cgi.

Anyway, the quick workaround was to run Apache as the lurker user.  It's
up and running now.  Thanks for the help!

I'll be doing some testing, and wondered if the lurker-users list is
available as an mbox file for download anywhere?  If so, I can put up a
copy of it in lurker for people to play with.

-- 
Kevin