Twiki problems - no such file or directory
Da Rock
freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au
Wed Nov 30 00:52:35 UTC 2011
On 11/30/11 05:24, Karl Vogel wrote:
>>> On Tue, 29 Nov 2011 14:05:30 +1000,
>>> Da Rock<freebsd-questions at herveybayaustralia.com.au> said:
> D> I installed twiki on a test server to get a handle on how it operates,
> D> and it all worked fine so I installed it on the production server. The
> D> only difference between the 2 is that the production server uses vhosts.
>
> D> When I try to run *any* of the twiki scripts (twiki/bin/view,
> D> twiki/bin/configure) I get "no such file or directory" in the httpd
> D> error logs.
>
> I did see the reply about checking the perl path; this is for people who
> run into other "no such file" problems. If the path fix hadn't worked,
> my next step would have been adding vhosts to the test server and seeing
> if I could get them both to fail in the same way.
>
> We've had similar problems, and replacing the program with a call to
> truss helps us troubleshoot:
>
> root# mv /path/to/apache /path/to/apache.bin
>
> root# cat /path/to/apache
> #!/bin/sh
> exec /usr/bin/truss -o /tmp/apache$$ -f /path/to/apache.bin
> exit 1
>
I hadn't thought of that last trick- good one.
I was really tired so I guess I wasn't thinking too straight, but the
fact that the logs were showing no such file for say
/twiki/bin/configure was really only making me think of the configure
script file- not that it couldn't find the interpreter- so my attention
was focused on that. The fact perl was on a slight different path was
not really registering at the time at all. Very misleading for the tired
and weary... :)
I had considered running the test server in exactly the same form as the
production, but that was going to be my very last resort and after a
very long sleep!
Moral of the story: Don't try diagnostics when you're so tired that you
can't see straight, let alone think straight. You'll miss the small
details that can make a huge difference ;)
Cheers
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