Hi,
In the book, apache user is created with the home directory /dev/null. This
default setting
works perfect, until I installed ViewVC. It took me a long time to figure it
out.
In the function annotate, it throws this exception:
An Exception Has Occurred
Python Traceback
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/viewvc.py", line 3609, in main
request.run_viewvc()
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/viewvc.py", line 386, in run_viewvc
self.view_func(self)
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/viewvc.py", line 2164, in view_annotate
generate_page(request, "annotate", data)
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/viewvc.py", line 835, in generate_page
template.generate(request.server.file(), data)
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/ezt.py", line 326, in generate
self._execute(self.program, ctx)
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/ezt.py", line 455, in _execute
step[0](step[1], ctx)
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/ezt.py", line 525, in _cmd_for
for unused in iterator:
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/ezt.py", line 715, in next
self.last_item = self._iter.next() # may raise StopIteration
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/blame.py", line 78, in __getitem__
item = self.annotation.__getitem__(idx)
File "/opt/ViewVC-1.0/lib/vclib/svn/__init__.py", line 503, in __getitem__
raise vclib.Error("Could not parse blame output at line %i\n%s"
Error: Could not parse blame output at line 1
svn: Can't open config file '/dev/null/.subversion/servers'
The last line mentioned something strange. /dev/null is a file and can't be a
directory. I guessed
ViewVC just tests whether the home existed or not, and in this case, /dev/null
existes. So it looks
for the file, and thus makes the program fails.
A quick fix is to change the home directory of user apache to anything but not files. However,
I suggested creating an empty directories for it.
William Zhou
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