Apache13/MoinMoin/Python vs PATH? What changed?

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 1 19:05:18 UTC 2007


On Thu, 1 Mar 2007, Andrew Reilly wrote:

> Hi Daniel,
>
> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:41:00AM -0500, Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Wed, 28 Feb 2007, Andrew Reilly wrote:
>>> Funny thing happened after the last upgrade (upgraded to
>>> 6-STABLE yesterday): the moinmoin wiki that I've been
>>> playing with stopped working.  A little fiddling found
>>> that I could make it work again by changing the shebang
>>> at the top of /usr/local/www/wiki/moin.cgi (ScriptAlias
>>> points there, in httpd.conf) from #!/usr/bin/env python to
>>> #!/usr/local/bin/python
>>
>> See this thread:
>>
>>   http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.freebsd.cvs/browse_thread/thread/a0344851d94df36f/e94a3c524ff22732?lnk=st&q=&rnum=3#e94a3c524ff22732
>>
>> If that link doesn't work, search groups.google.com,
>> "/usr/bin/env python group:*freebsd*" and see the
>> "cvs commit: src/etc rc.subr" thread.
>
> Thanks for the link: it worked fine for me.
>
> I'm a little surprised that I appear to be the first one bringing up a
> problem with this change, given that it happened three months ago.
> Since there was no warning in UPDATING, were all of the python ports
> patched at about the same time?  (I haven't done a portupgrade all that
> recently: just FreeBSD itself.)
>
> What is the approved "fix" for this problem?  Setting a PATH that
> includes /usr/local/bin in /usr/local/etc/rc.d/apache.sh?  Or the
> shebang patch to the python script itself, that I have already made?

Has anyone answered this yet?  I do not know myself.

-- 
DE


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