Re: [AOLSERVER] authuser
Oh, that's an attractive notion. Very. I wish I'd thought of it years ago, would have simplified a lot of my logging. Actually it still would. Jeff Rogers wrote: The authUser field of a conn is logged by nslog and can be read with ns_conn authuser but is only set in the driver from basic authentication. Does anyone (other than me) think there would be value in allowing the conn username to be updated, i.e., by a new 'ns_conn setauthuser' subommand? The primary benefit would be to let you log usernames with requests in your access log when your authentication method is something other than http basic. A possible secondary benefit would be to standardize how different parts of an application (esp. a pluggable authentication system) could pass around the logged-in username. I have a simple patch to add this to stock 4.5; a better overall approach would be to adopt naviserver's more flexible auth handling. -J -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank. -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
Re: [AOLSERVER] Problem starting aolserver
Thorpe Mayes wrote: When trying to start a newly installed version of aolserver, I get this error: Error: nssock: failed to listen on 64.58.34.71:80: Permission denied What folder/file does not have the correct permissions? To listen on ports below 255, Unix requires you to start the process as root. If you *are* starting as root (I see you've got a -u flag on the command line) then it could be that something else is already bound to that port. But I'll bet you're not starting as root. God knows I've done that often enough. Michael -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
[AOLSERVER] Difficulties compiling AOLserver 4.5.0
Hi, all! It's been years since I tried a new install, and here I have a new box, new AOLserver version, new everything. The box is running Fedora Core 6 (2.6.19-1.2895.fc6), gcc is version 4.1.1, Tcl is 8.4.14, and AOLserver is 4.5.0. Tcl was compiled with thread support. (Or so I intended.) The configure step doesn't pick up my TCLSH on its own, so I had to add TCLSH=/usr/local/bin/tclsh8.4 to ns.mak.in. Then the build process worked. The big problem, though, is when Tcl_GetMemoryInfo is referenced. I get: nsthreadtest.o: In function `DumperThread': nsthreadtest.c:(.text+0x1f1): undefined reference to `Tcl_GetMemoryInfo' I see that Tcl_GetMemoryInfo is something of a bone of contention, so I tacked an 0 onto that #ifdef, only to run into the same problem later on in nsd -- so what am I missing? Michael -- AOLserver - http://www.aolserver.com/ To Remove yourself from this list, simply send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body of SIGNOFF AOLSERVER in the email message. You can leave the Subject: field of your email blank.
[AOLSERVER] Dumb SSL question
It's been a while since I bestirred myself to change anything in my SSL configuration (yes, I'm *still* running AOLserver 2.1 on one server...) but I've got reason to consider SSL on one of my newer servers and I don't want to pay Verisign more than I have to (and it's a different domain name). So what are the options in this brave new century for SSL certificates that won't make typical browsers choke? Michael I. To remove yourself from this list: Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the BODY of your message: signoff aolserver II. For a complete list of listserv options please visit: http://listserv.aol.com/ III. For more AOLserver information please visit: http://www.aolserver.com/
Re: [AOLSERVER] nsmysql-0.5 and initial build problem
For what it's worth, I've compiled nsmysql-0.5 on Solaris 8 against AOLserver 3.2 with no problems. (With GNU make.) Michael Dossy wrote: On 2002.04.09, Kevin Lawver [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm trying to build the MySQL driver for AOLserver and am running into a problem I can't quite get around. We're using Solaris 8, and 3.2 (I know, I know) and using the AOLserver binary's included include directory. Whenever we try to make the module we get something like, reader Error: unexpected line ending in Makefile.global at line 64. Line 64 is smack-dab in the middle of the platform section. So, we removed all the platform sections except Solaris 8, and tried again and got basically the same error. Has anyone encountered this? If so, how did you get around it? Are you using GNU make? -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70)
[AOLSERVER] PHP?
Has anyone used PHP under AOLserver? I'm not expecting anything like a tight integration, just have some code written for PHP that I'd like to expose on a site already running AOLserver. Any comments or try starting here would be welcome. Michael
Re: [AOLSERVER] PHP?
I've built it before (a while back) so that part doesn't scare me. But somehow I'd forgotten that it is a scripting language, not a webserver, and so I was pleasantly surprised to realize today that I can keep my AOLserver platform and still use this code. The conf info was *exactly* what I was looking for; thanks! Michael Simon Gibson wrote: I have it running - It was pretty easy. Just follow the instructions in the PHP install doc.
Re: [AOLSERVER] Solaris 2.5.1 -- My God.
Jeff Hobbs wrote: [stuff] Kriston Rehberg wrote: [stuff] I might add that you will have a hard time getting a compiler and/or support for 2.5.1 from Sun nowadays. They want this to disappear, and all I can say is that they have good reason. People should be on the 2.6+ for better stability, improved performance, ... Yes, yes, thank you all, but in the past two months I have indeed moved to another server entirely. Which (in fact) I mentioned in passing last month. But I'm gonna miss that ol' Sparc. It was a handy workhorse for a long time. I'm thinking it might be happy as a home file server. (After moving most of its functionality to a dual-Pentium Dell I have no desire to use the Sparc as a server any more.)
[AOLSERVER] Dossy rocks!
I just wanted to note that http://www.techspex.com has been running handily using Dossy's nsmysql for about a month now. The upgrade from AOL2.1 (yeah) to AOL3.x was far less painful than I had any right to expect, I might also add. Thanks, Dossy! Michael
[AOLSERVER] Solaris 2.5.1
I've compiled AS3.4.2 on Solaris 2.5.1 successfully, but upon attempting to start it, I'm getting a relocation error: Warning: modload: failed to load '/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nssock.so': 'ld.so.1: bin/nsd76: fatal: relocation error: symbol not found: Ns_RegisterDriver: referenced in /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nssock.so' (Not just nsd76, either -- I figured it couldn't hurt to try both.) What gives? What could I possibly be doing wrong? Michael
Re: [AOLSERVER] Solaris 2.5.1 -- My God.
Well, I figured this one out, actually -- after roughly eight hours of reading the entire Internet, I discovered that -Wl,-E is required as a ld flag in order to export all the symbols in the main program so that nssock.so can use them. ... Is this obsolete 2.5.1 behavior that Solaris 2.6 has dropped? BUT now that nssock and everybody loads fine, the server gets as far as the first idle, upon which it dies ignominiously, which event my good friend truss thoughtfully records: 24485: Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x00AA18A8 24485:siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00AA18A8 24485: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [caught] 24485:siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00AA18A8 24485: sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, 0xEF6C36E4, 0x) = 0 24485: sigaction(SIGSEGV, 0xE140, 0x) = 0 24485: setcontext(0xE280) 24485: Incurred fault #6, FLTBOUNDS %pc = 0x00AA18A8 24485:siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00AA18A8 24485: Received signal #11, SIGSEGV [default] 24485:siginfo: SIGSEGV SEGV_MAPERR addr=0x00AA18A8 Now -- what I can't figure out -- according to the project home, the AOL team uses Solaris 2.6 as a test environment. The burning question uppermost in my mind (save one) is HOW DIFFERENT COULD IT BE?!?!?!? (The burning question *truly* uppermost in my mind is of course how can I extract myself from this situation and I would greatly appreciate any help at all.) Michael Michael Roberts wrote: I've compiled AS3.4.2 on Solaris 2.5.1 successfully, but upon attempting to start it, I'm getting a relocation error: Warning: modload: failed to load '/usr/local/aolserver/bin/nssock.so': 'ld.so.1: bin/nsd76: fatal: relocation error: symbol not found: Ns_RegisterDriver: referenced in /usr/local/aolserver/bin/nssock.so'
[AOLSERVER] OS recommendation
So I have a Dell Intel machine, dual processor, with ... some RAM and some hard drive (I don't know the specs yet, I don't actually have the machine yet.) I want to run AOLserver on it to back this poor ol' Sparc up and maybe, just maybe, I'll upgrade past AOLserver 2.1 for this (yeah, well, if it ain't broke, don't fix it) (I'm actually still running Illustra, even.) So my question is: what OS should I put on it? It's dual-processor, so I seem to recall that there were some issues with Linux? Should I spring for Solaris Intel? Go BSD? What? Michael
Re: [AOLSERVER] URGENT AOLSERVER + ACS + SOLARIS
I have *always* had a problem with scheduled procs, to the point where I now simply use a cron job and curl to tell AOLserver to do something Michael Allan Regenbaum DP wrote: We are running a production AOLServer 3.3.1 + ad13 on solaris We have 2 machines, duplicates of each other. Machine A suddenly, without error messages stops running scheduled procs !! Machine B continues to perform flawlessly The machine is running acs classic 4.2 tcl, 90% webmail which has been running perfectly well under stress and load for months... Urgent help/suggestions are appreciated .. Allan Regenbaum Digital People
Re: [AOLSERVER] nsmysql-0.6pre
Dossy wrote: I've checked in nsmysql-0.6pre into SourceForge CVS. I've also put up a source tarball at: ftp://ftp.panoptic.com/nsmysql/nsmysql-0.6pre.tar.gz I had better luck with ftp://ftp.panoptic.com/pub/nsmysql/nsmysql-0.6pre.tar.gz Michael
Re: [AOLSERVER] nsmysql-0.6pre
I meant that you had a typo in your URL, actually. Dossy wrote: On 2001.10.19, Michael Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had better luck with ftp://ftp.panoptic.com/pub/nsmysql/nsmysql-0.6pre.tar.gz Here's how to grab it out of SourceForge CVS: $ cvs -d :pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/aolserver \ co -r nsmysql_0_6_pre nsmysql -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on. (p. 70)
Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver Chat recommen
Of course, an IRC server is simple enough to set up on any machine -- I can gladly host it on my box. It's not like IRC is a high-bandwidth service... My two bits. Michael Kriston Rehberg wrote: Unfortunately, most of these IRC servers immediately reject people coming in from .aol.com domains. The openprojects.net server seems to do this as well. I guess IRC is not an option, then, since many of our developers are in .aol.com. Kris -- Kriston Rehberg mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] AOL Technology Development
[AOLSERVER] Question about extending AOLserver in C
So I'm studying set.c and tclset.c, because the ns_set is probably the extension I use the most and I figure it's Done Right -- but I can't for the life of me see how the connection-local interpreter knows to call Ns_TclFreeSet. Where is the proper cleanup function assigned to the interpreter? I'm so confused Michael
Re: [AOLSERVER] 'moved pages' redirects?
That's the way I do it. Michael Jim Tittsler wrote: What is the correct way of sending a permanent redirect when visitors (or spiders) visit old URLs of pages that have moved to different spots in the tree? Is registering a procedure for the old pages, and having it write out the redirect the best way?
Re: [AOLSERVER] AOLserver Chat recommendations
I'm for it. I've never had any real luck with AIM. Kriston Rehberg wrote: Hello, The AIM chat rooms are a fiasco. We end up in different rooms all the time. What do you think about using IRC instead? We could register a permanent channel on something like irc.openprojects.net. Kris
Re: [AOLSERVER] .ida code red worm crashes AOLserver 2.1 on Win 2k
..and yes, i realize no one here runs as 2.1. I do. Unfortunately for you, I guess, only on Solaris. However, I'd think you could capture such an HTTP request by putting up a wrapper of some sort on a machine otherwise not running an HTTPD daemon. Eventually the worm will hit it, or at least I suppose it will. Then you can see what it looks like. To fix your situation, though, without switching off W2K, because I sure understand wanting to go with advanced software technology like that (ow, I bit my tongue, that's what I get for leaving it in my cheek), I think you'll have to use some kind of proxying setup; this could presumably reside all on the same machine and use something like winet. Just a thought. Hope it helps. Michael
Re: [AOLSERVER] .ida code red worm crashes AOLserver 2.1 on Win2k
Mine (as2.1 on Solaris) also returned 404. Barry Books wrote: 502 -Original Message- From: Michael E. Duffy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 3:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AOLSERVER] .ida code red worm crashes AOLserver 2.1 on Win 2k More important, what response did AOLserver return for the request? I show 404 for AOLserver (2.3 and 3.2), and 400 for Apache. I presume IIS returned a 200 or a 5xx - anyone know for sure? Mike http://www.mikeduffy.com
Re: [AOLSERVER] nsssl - openssl ?
Rob Mayoff wrote: I believe that if you use Apache/mod_ssl with an encrypted key, the server will pause at startup time and prompt you to enter the passphrase on the command line. The problems with this approach should be obvious... Particularly when it's a remote server. That command-line prompt on the (nonexistent) console is not 100% useful. I discovered this security feature the hard way once.
Re: [AOLSERVER] TDS database driver for AOLserver
Hopefully in a short amount of time the driver will be complete enough to release as a v0.1 release, and we can get some serious testing going on. I need to see that code. There's got to be some clue as to why it's not connecting. Michael
Re: [AOLSERVER] TDS database driver for AOLserver
But if you look at the FreeTDS site, their 4.2 version talks to SQL Server 7, and their 7.0 version talks to uppity SQL Server 7 and SQL Server 2000. I've been working on this off and on all week. I'll race ya. Dossy wrote: On 2001.05.04, Ian Harding [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There was talk of a nstdsdb module from [EMAIL PROTECTED] Would this allow direct access to an MS SQL Server box from my NetBSD box? Upon closer inspection of the Sybase Open Client FAQ, it seems that SQL Server 7 and newer use a new client-server protocol and that TDS is now a legacy protocol: http://www.isug.com/Sybase_FAQ/ASE/section7.html#7.4 However, it seems that it is still possible to connect to SQL Server 7 using TDS if you apply Service Pack 2 of SQL Server 7, according to the FAQ. I'm grabbing a copy of FreeTDS this weekend and seeing if I can get at least a bare-bones driver working, perhaps shamelessly stealing from the nssybpd external DB driver. Perhaps, I'll even be so lazy as to just try and get nssybpd working using FreeTDS instead of the Sybase Open Client libraries. Of course, as I've said before, I don't have a SQL Server set up here, but others have offered to volunteer theirs -- if they're accessible over the Internet (not firewalled, etc.) and an account can be set up, please email me. I'd like to test against a SQL Server 6, 7, and 2000 ... if possible. I'll be able to test against SQL Server 2000 and I believe SQL Server 7 at work next week, but I don't know if SQL Server 6 is installed anywhere any more. - Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/
Re: [AOLSERVER] aolserver documentation
I've had many people tell me, I believe you that aolserver is faster and more efficient than xxx webserver, but with php there is a vast repository of scripts and documents that allow me to not have to reinvent the wheel to do a simple thing. Of course, the end result of that logic is a sucky site, but it is an example of most people I've gotten to start using aolserver who say the availability of technical documentation for aolserver is just not up to snuff in comparison to other weaker webservers, and that can have an effect on final decisions (unfortunately). This is mildly off-topic, but sometimes my curmudgeonly nature gets the better of me. My wife worked for a while consulting on mechanical engineering with GM. General Motors, not genetically modified... The car people. For every model of car, GM *does* reinvent the wheel. And the headlight. And the fender. And everything else in the car. The same general principles apply to each design, but the design is always different. That's why the car looks and functions as a coherent unit. The moral of the story is that wheels often need reinventing, even though you need some design guidelines from previous efforts. This is what I tell people when they use the phrase reinventing the wheel. And it's not even close to germane to the current topic. So carry on. By the way, I agree. The AOLserver documentation sucks. That's because we're all geniuses who don't really need documentation. Periodically one or more of us gets a bee in a bonnet to redo or at least improve the documentation, and eventually I'm sure something will come of it. Michael
Re: [AOLSERVER] the sybase driver and sql server 7
All in all, it looks as though an nstdsdb module will be rather straightforward. Film at 11. Jerry Asher wrote: *ponders* I have Sybase 11.x installed here, but no SQL 7 or 2000 box to test with. Hmm. - Dossy I have SQL Server 7 here and I will be happy to give you access to it. Jerry = Jerry Asher [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1678 Shattuck Avenue Suite 161Tel: (510) 549-2980 Berkeley, CA 94709Fax: (877) 311-8688
