Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: Notes on reinstall of developmental computer

CVSEDITOR=emacs
CVS_RSH=ssh
CSVROOT=:ext:devcomputer:/cvsweb

I'm using the same user name on both computers. Is there anything I need to do to set up the CVS daemon on my developmental computer? I don't remember if I did it before..

The cvs repository is on my dev computer. If I login as joeuser on the production computer and do:

cvs co servicename

Back on production:

cd servicename
rm readme.txt
cvs update readme.txt
joeuser@devcomputer's password:
U readme.txt

I hate to bug you all with this, but I really do appreciate the help. I'm doing my best to find resources on the net as well.

Strangely, however, the workaround seems to be use use the trace option (-t). For example:

cvs -t update readme.txt

I'm going to ignore this problem for now, since I have a workaround. On to more interesting things:

Getting ACS 3.4.10 up again

• su - joeuser
• download the openacs4.tcl.txt configuration file. I'm not sure if this will work with ACS 3.4, but I'd like to try it. I edit it.
• Hmm, looks like I didn't install the nsd-oracle and nsd-postgres scripts.
• cd /tmp
• wget https://openacs.org/openacs-4/files/nsd-oracle.txt
• wget https://openacs.org/openacs-4/files/nsd-postgres.txt
• su -
• cd /usr/local/aolserver/bin
• cp /tmp/nsd-oracle.txt ./nsd-oracle
• cp /tmp/nsd-postgres.txt ./nsd-postgres
• chmod 750 nsd-oracle
• chmod 755 nsd-postgres Now, why does Postgres need different permissions? Hmm, it looks like nsd-oracle doesn't run from joeuser unless the permissions are 755. So I set them that way. Any security problems with that?
• exit
• /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd-oracle -t ~/web/myservicename/myservicename.tcl I get an error saying that no log directory exists. Yes, that's true, I better add it in. mkdir web/myservicename/log
• I get these errors:

  Warning: modload: failed to load '/usr/local/aolserver/bin/ora8.so': 'libclntsh.so.8.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory'
Error: dbdrv: failed to load driver 'ora8'
Error: dbinit: no such default pool 'pool1'
Debug: dbinit: no configured pools

  That doesn't look good. Permissions are root.root on the aolserver bin and lib directories..

• su -
• cd /usr/local/aolserver
• chgrp web bin lib
• exit
• killall nsd
• /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd-oracle -t ~/web/myservicename/myservicename.tcl
• That didn't seem to work. Same problem as before. So I change the groups back. Trying the same command as root doesn't work either:
• /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nsd-oracle -t ~/web/myservicename/myservicename.tcl -u joeuser -g web
• I see at this website that this is a sign that LD_LIBRARY_PATH is incorrect. And what do you know? Looking at nsd-oracle, it sure it. So I edit in and change 8.1.7 to 8.1.6
• It seems like it might be working... Nope. In the log it says it failed to have permission to listen on 0.0.0.0, which I set it for. So I set the port back to 8000 instead of 80, and now...
• Error: /tcl/user-group-defs.tcl: function ug_serve_group_pages: first element in url_list is not [ad_parameter GroupsDirectory ug]
• I had to add two lines under ns/parameters in myservicename.tcl:

  ns_param user joeuser
  ns_param auxconfigdir ${serverroot}/parameters
  

  This is ACS 3.4, so that file is necessary. Now it seems to be working fine.
• I set up daemontools. It was even easier than I thought it would be to set up.
• For some reason, I wasn't able to get the run script to work unless I changed the user from nobody to joeuser. I'm certain that's not as good an option security-wise...
• ACS is now functioning fine. I'll install OpenACS later, maybe next week or so.