Re: [mv] Mysterious session.gdbm problems

[mikeh@minivend.com]

Quoting John Donagher (john@webmeta.com):
> 
> Hi all-
>     I'm new to the list, so I'm sorry if this has been asked/answered
> before.
> 
>     I'm running the current version of Minivend on Solaris 2.6, and have no
> problems with the daemon itself, but rather with the test catalog I
> installed. In the CATROOT/simple directory, there is a file called session
> .gdbm, which I know very little about. I assume it's some sort of
> user-session tracking database.
> 
>     The problem is that the server runs under user 'minivend', but for some
> reason, this session.gdbm file gets chowned and chgrp'd to root. This
> prevents the minivend server from accessing it due to permission problems,
> which results in the lovely Internal Server Error whenever anyone tries to
> access the test shopping cart. I don't know why it's happening - it happens
> some hours after I chown it back to minivend (which is the only solution I
> have right now). I can't seem to associate it with any particular event.
> None of the other files get chowned to root. I checked all the docs and FAQs
> I could find on the Minivend site, and while fairly comprehensive, I
> couldn't find anything similar to my problem.

New FAQ entry:

=head2 My session files change to owner root every day!

You have the expireall -r entry in the root crontab, and it should
be in the Minivend user crontab.

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