Re: [SL] Permissions Error

[Rich S. <rsh...@ap...>]

On Wed, 24 Jan 2007, Ashley J Gittins wrote:

> 	In the doc subdirectory you will find instructions for each version's
> upgrade. Essentially the bit you need to do is (do this from the root of your
> sl install, eg /usr/local/sql-ledger/):
>
> 2. fix permissions
>   # chown -hR nobody:nogroup *
>   # chmod 711 templates users css spool

Ashley,

   Well, I missed that because permissions were not changed in prior
upgrades.

> Note: replace nobody:nogroup with your web server user and group

   According to /etc/apache/httpd.conf, it's nobody.nobody. But, that gave me
an internal server error when I tried to log in. So, I changed the group to
to nogroup and now I get other access denied errors.

> Ultimately I think your problem is that the config file is owned by
> yourself, not apache, but you'll have other issues if you don't fix the
> whole lot by doing to two steps above (note that the first step sets
> ownership recursively, so will include your conf file etc).

   No, it's more insiduous. When I upgraded my system from Slackware-10.2 to
-11.0 a bunch of perl modules went missing for some reason. So, I took a
look at /var/log/apache/error_log and saw this:

[root@salmo ~]# tail -f /var/log/apache/error_log
  at SL/User.pm line 117
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/sql-ledger/login.pl line 99.
[Tue Jan 23 20:17:59 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/sql-ledger/login.pl
install_driver(Pg) failed: Can't locate DBD/Pg.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i486-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i486-linux /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8
/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl .) at (eval 10) line 3.
Perhaps the DBD::Pg perl module hasn't been fully installed,
or perhaps the capitalisation of 'Pg' isn't right.
Available drivers: DBM, ExampleP, File, Proxy, Sponge, mysql.
  at SL/User.pm line 117
Compilation failed in require at /usr/local/sql-ledger/login.pl line 99.
[Tue Jan 23 20:20:42 2007] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: /usr/local/sql-ledger/login.pl

   Unfortunately, trying to re-install DBD::Pg fails because one or more
tests fail. I need to contact a perl expert to learn how to overcome that.
>From the log, it appears that when I get the module re-installed I'll be
able to log in. If not, I'll be back. :-)

Many thanks,

Rich

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