[DotGNU]Re: mod_dgee port to Apache2 (was Re: DGEE boot failure)

[Andrew Mitchell]

Excellent work! thanks! :) Chris, could you give some info on the DGEE & 
goldwater starting problems?
I'll test this module & commit it to CVS ASAP.. might as well test it at uni
today when I'm sitting around doing nothing :)

On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 03:57:55AM +0200, Taher Sehli wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 23:46, Andrew Mitchell wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 07:30:13PM +0000, Chris Smith wrote:
> > > On Monday 07 July 2003 18:51, Taher Sehli wrote:
> > > > Is there anyone working to port mod_dgee to Apache2, If No let me help 
> > > > in
> > > > this issue as I have experience with Apache modules development.
> > > 
> > > Yes, ajmitch is working on it.  I'm sure any offered help would be, um, 
> > > helpful.
> > Help is greatly desired! :) I have little/no experience with apache modules,
> > and am just trying for a straight port. This has been shelved temporarily 
> > due
> > to time constraints.
> 
> Hi,
> I begin porting mod_dgee.c to Apache2 and just finished it. Now mod_dgee
> compile and I can load it in Apache2. unfortunately i was not able to
> test it as I have permanent goldwater start failure (i will describe
> this error later in this message).
> When porting mod_dgee I tried to keep the same function names as for
> Apache1.3 while changing their prototypes. The Apache2 module structure
> is really different than Apache1.3 (many functions/structure renamed or
> removed) so I think we should keep it in a different file and choose the
> right one on compilation time based on Apache version.
> The code is far from clean but I was excited to finish it and get a
> working thing...The mod_dgee.c is attached in this message (if this is
> not the right way to submit work please instruct me how to do so i can
> do so).
> 
> About goldwater start failure :
> as I mentioned earlier, I can't start goldwater , here's what is
> happening when I try to start:
> 
> shell> dgadmin start
> User/group running administrator does not match that in configuration.
> Error Initialising Administrator (Invalid user name)
> 
> so I su to root and try again (after sourcing dgeeenv.sh) :
> shell> dgadmin start
> Initialising local Goldwater administrative processes....
> Initialising process Guardian....
> 
> when I look in the log directory (there isn't any file !). In fact it's
> not running because when i try :
> shell> dgadmin boot
> Error Initialising Administrator (Goldwater is not running) 
> 
> I am almost sure that all environment variables are OK; and ipcs
> resources are also OK. While goldwater not running I can see queues
> allocated to anybody user: 
> shell> ipcs
> ------ Semaphore Arrays --------
> key        semid      owner      perms      nsems     
> 0x00004e20 196608     nobody    600        4         
> 
> ------ Message Queues --------
> key        msqid      owner      perms      used-bytes   messages    
> 0x00000000 327680     nobody     600        0            0   
> 
> I tried to use gdb (although am not familiar with it) to see what is
> happening :
> 
> shell>gdb goldwater
> ...
> (gdb) run start
> Starting program: /usr/local/bin/goldwater start
> Initialising local Goldwater administrative processes....
> Initialising process Guardian....
> Couldn't get registers: Operation not permitted.
> 
> I think the last message is due to a bug in gdb (I saw some messages in
> internet about this gdb bug).
> 
> Chris can you help me please with this problem as it permits to test the
> port to Apache2. I am ready to all options including uninstalling and
> reinstalling dgee from the scratch.
> 
> Regards.
> 


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