Re: Redhat 6.0 E-Commerce Edition

[wil <dready@pacific.net.sg>]

This is due to the vlink or tlink program's failure to communicate with the minivend
server.
Checkpoints:

1) make sure that minivend is started (ps ax |grep minivend)
2) make sure that the vlink program belongs to the minivend user and setuid to the user
    my 'ls -l' listing shows this:
-rwsrwxr-x   1 minivend  minivend      8564 Aug 27 16:08 mycat.cgi

the 's' bit in the "user" category must be set and the cgi program must belong to the
minivend user.

3) make sure that the vlink program can access the socket file (if you're using the UNIX
domain sockets).  The socket file is <your_minivend_installation_dir>/etc/socket
make sure this too, belongs to the minivend user, and has permission like
srw-------    1 minivend    minivend    ......

4) try telnetting to your server's ip address, port num: 7786.  If you can connect, it
also shows that connection is not a problem.

give as much diagnostics as possible.


Regards,

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Kyle Hayes wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>     ******
>
> On Wed, 25 Aug 1999 xjohn@adstech.com wrote:
> >
> >  Atually I did download it. And tried it out, the RPM works better than
> >  the one thatis available for download. But still, the same problem
> >  persists. I can get the server running, but I cannot connect to it from
> >  the web. I just get the "unavailable" page after about 30 seconds or
> >  so. Could you be so kind as to give me step by step instructions? I am
> >  building the sample page. So that should make it a little easier to
> >  explain I hope. Anyhow, please help me, I am a moron and need to read a
> >  FAQ befor I wipe, so you know what you are dealing with. Thanks....
> >
> >
> > John "desprate for brains, very desprate"
>
> Sounds like the cgi-bin executable is owned by a different user than
> minivend.
>
> go into MVHOME/etc and run
>
> chmod +rw socket
>
> Then try again.  If this works, it probably means that the executable for
> your catalog has incorrect permissions.  Search the web site (particularly
> the faq) on the www.minivend.com site.  There is an entry there on just
> this problem in the parts on debugging and start up.
>
> Best,
> Kyle
>
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