2005-01-17 Web

Hm, seems that not all of my sites got moved correctly. Remaining problems to be solved:

1. orientalisch.info is still pointing to 83.137.100.37 and returns a website by taube.de – (solved)

2. got mail from people claiming the same problem for my oddmuse.org – (should be solved as well)

3. my cron-jobs don’t work (nearly solved?)

4. Perl CGI scripts don’t work

• *Cron Job Details:** I get mail saying for example:

/bin/sh: line 1: /home/aschroeder/bin/update-changelog: No such file or directory

That script starts with the magic characters:

#!/bin/sh

It worked before... And I can call the scripts from the command line. So either *bin is not on the path (so no cron-jobs can run), or bin cannot be read, or my script cannot be executed, or whatever. Unfortunately I don’t know how to debug this, and since my fingers need rest, I have little energy to look at it myself... 🙁*

Crontab setup example:

aschroeder@thinkmo:~$ crontab -l
07  *  *  *  *  /home/aschroeder/bin/update-changelog
...

A short IRC chat with one of the sysadmins reveals:

Jan 18 10:07:01 thinkmo CRON[16894]: Authentication service
cannot retrieve authentication info.

I think we know what the problem is... The first attempt at fixing it didn’t help, though.

• *CGI Details**: Perl CGI scripts started reporting ’’500 Can’t connect to www.emacswiki.org:80 (Bad protocol ’tcp’) at changelog-to-rss line 61.’’ – some sources seem to indicate that this, too, is a permissions problem. The chroot has no access to _etc_protocols... ¹

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PATH! PATH!!

– V 2005-01-17 01:31 UTC

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When I edit my crontab, I specify the script to run as follows:

07  *  *  *  *  /home/aschroeder/bin/update-changelog

I still suspect permissions somewhere:

drwxr-xr-x  2 aschroeder aschroeder 4096 Jan 14 16:49 bin

And the script itself:

-rwxr-xr--  1 aschroeder aschroeder  204 Jan  7 08:17 update-changelog

– Alex Schroeder 2005-01-17 10:56 UTC

Alex Schroeder