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Re: minivend security model



******    message to minivend-users from Joe Hourcle <oneiros@dcr.net>     ******



On Fri, 18 Dec 1998, Minivend Administrator wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Minivend Administrator <minivend@nterprise.net>     ******
> 
> The below description is almost exactly how I've got our www server setup
> (well, it does have a chrooted FTP server since I didn't want to mess with
> the hassle of setting up a cron to scp files from the "upload area" to a
> "live" webserver)...but I still haven't managed to get minivend to work
> with CGIWRAP.  I tried to search the 1998 archive on the subject but came
> up empty-handed (if I get some time in the next few weeks I might consider
> downloading the whole archive and creating a search engine for it).  I can
> get the simple/sample demos to work if I install minivend as root into the
> webserver DOCROOT, but not if I install it as mvend and use CGIWRAP.  The
> httpd error log says "Premature end of script headers" (no output is
> produced at all), and the minivend error log says
> 
> 192.168.1.10 - - [17/December/1998:14:34:32 -0700] -
> www.hostname.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/mvend/simple Undefined catalog:
> www.hostname.net/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/mvend/simple
> 
> Since I'm ultimately going to make minivend available to virtual domain
> customers, I used the www.hostname.net method of calling the
> demo...changing minivend.cfg and catalogs/simple/catalog.cfg as documented
> Even when I tried it w/o the www.hostname.net, it still didn't work.

As I understand cgiwrap, it sets some limits, incase there are run-away
processes.  You may try looking for the process limits (time and memory, I
think), and make sure that it's enough for minivend to run in.

-----
Joe Hourcle
Digital Crescent, Inc.

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