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Re: [mv] Mysterious session.gdbm problems
At 04:26 PM 10/16/1999 , you wrote:
>****** message to minivend-users from "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.
It could be a crontab'ed event running as root. Are you running expireall
or any other Minivend administration tool in a cron job? I'd login as root
and try 'crontab -l' (I think that's -List) and see if that's the prob.
If it is, remove that job, 'su minivend' and put the cron job there.
>
> Any insight into this problem would be greatly appreciated!
>
>Thanks
>John Donagher
>http://www.webmeta.com/
>
>
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