Re: [fossil-users] Unintuitive CGI error message with missing /tmp directory in chroot.

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Pereira
Hi Stephan, On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Paul Pereira pjspere...@gmail.com wrote: It's not common practice (for me, at least) to put the repo file in a path reachable by www clients. On my hoster all of my CGI-hosted repos live in some dir under my home dir, writable by my account, the

[fossil-users] Unintuitive CGI error message with missing /tmp directory in chroot.

2015-07-29 Thread Paul Pereira
It may be worth mentioning in the CGI setup instructions that Fossil/sqlite needs to be able to create temporary files for rollback logs in some manner particular to the OS, such as by writing to /tmp. In my case, I installed Fossil according to the standard chroot procedure in OpenBSD for CGI

Re: [fossil-users] Unintuitive CGI error message with missing /tmp directory in chroot.

2015-07-29 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 5:28 PM, Paul Pereira pjspere...@gmail.com wrote: It may be worth mentioning in the CGI setup instructions that Fossil/sqlite needs to be able to create temporary files for rollback logs in some manner particular to the OS, such as by writing to /tmp. In my case, I

Re: [fossil-users] Unintuitive CGI error message with missing /tmp directory in chroot.

2015-07-29 Thread Stephan Beal
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 7:22 PM, Paul Pereira pjspere...@gmail.com wrote: The path /var/www is the chroot folder. It is not publicly visible by Ah, right - chroot. i run on a cheap shared hoster where chroot isn't an option, so i've never used that feature :/. I would add - Fossil must be