Forum OpenACS Q&A: AOLServer installation problem

Posted by Jarkko Laine on 05/27/02 05:18 PM

I installed the AOLServer according the instructions and put the
"as:2345:respawn:/home/aolserver/bin/nsd -it
/home/aolserver/nsd.tcl -u nsadmin -g nsadmin" line in the
/etc/inittab. The server seems to be starting at startup (I get
the following notices:
[root@a9c2 aolserver]# [27/May/2002:18:30:31][2362.1024][-main-]
Notice: nsd.tcl: starting to read config file...
[27/May/2002:18:30:31][2362.1024][-main-] Warning: nsd.tcl: nsssl
not loaded because key/cert files do not exist.
[27/May/2002:18:30:31][2362.1024][-main-] Notice: nsd.tcl:
finished reading config file.
)

However, when I try ps aux | grep nsd, I don't get anything
(correct). When trying to connect to localhost with Opera I get
the following error:
[27/May/2002:18:15:13][2119.1024][-main-] Fatal: config:
stat(/-u) failed: No such file or directory

I just can't figure out what that error is trying to refer to.

TIA for any help,
Jarkko

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Posted by Jarkko Laine on 05/27/02 05:48 PM

Another problem I came across was that for some reason I can't execute pgsql commands (e.g. createdb) with nsadmin, i.e. the path is not working. With root and postgres they're all working fine.

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Posted by Kenny Chan on 05/27/02 06:13 PM

Hi Jarkko,

For the PostgreSQL problem, you have to "createuser nsadmin" first if you haven't already done so.

Sincerely,

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Posted by Jarkko Laine on 05/27/02 08:33 PM

I have tried to do everything according to OpenACS docs, i.e. I've created the user answering yes to both questions about it's rights. It worked fine when I used the pgsql packaged in the RH distribution but when I compiled it from the source, this problem occured.

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Posted by Jonathan Ellis on 05/28/02 04:40 AM

try running in the forground and see what it says when it dies. nsd -f rather than -i.

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Posted by Jade Rubick on 05/28/02 06:30 PM

I suspect the problem might be permissions. Are you able to run
any postgres commands? createdb, etc...? If not, then you need
to cd to the postgres directory and chmod g+rx postgresdirectory,
and make sure your path includes the postgres directory. I think
this is something that we fixed in the install docs, but the
problem might still be there...

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Posted by Jarkko Laine on 05/29/02 08:37 AM

Jade,

Thanks for your answer. I think the reason was that nsadmin wasn't in the web group like postgres and though files in the pgsql/bin dir were 755, the pgsql dir was not and therefore it didn't work.

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Posted by Jarkko Laine on 05/29/02 09:16 AM

Jonathan,

This is what I get:
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: nsd.tcl: starting to read config file...
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Warning: nsd.tcl: nsssl not loaded because key/cert files do not exist.
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: nsd.tcl: finished reading config file.
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: nsmain: AOLserver/3.4.2 starting
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: nsmain: security info: uid=503, euid=503, gid=503, egid=503
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: nsmain: max files: FD_SETSIZE = 1024, rl_cur = 1024, rl_max = 1024
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: modload: loading '/home/aolserver/bin/postgres.so'
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: PostgreSQL loaded.
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: adp: mapped /*.adp
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: modload: loading '/home/aolserver/bin/nssock.so'
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: modload: loading '/home/aolserver/bin/nslog.so'
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: nslog: opened '/home/aolserver/servers/jarkko/modules/nslog/access.log'
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Notice: modload: loading '/home/aolserver/bin/libnsjava.so'
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Warning: modload: failed to load '/home/aolserver/bin/libnsjava.so': '/home/aolserver/bin/libnsjava.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'
[29/May/2002:09:54:16][11770.1024][-main-] Fatal: modload: failed to load module '/home/aolserver/bin/libnsjava.so'

I can see the problem is that there isn't this libnsjava.so file. But I'm not sure if I want to have the nsjava module. So why does the server automatically want to have that module and what configuration file should I change to get that corrected?

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Posted by Ola Hansson on 05/29/02 09:50 AM

You may safely comment out the line that loads the nsjava module in section:

ns_section "ns/server/${server}/modules"

in /home/aolserver/nsd.tcl.

The only module I know uses nsjava is webmail which doesn't work so well anyway, I believe.