Apache/CGI new error?
Okay... well, I changed the script somewhat and it should have worked but didn't. When I looked in suexec.log, I found this: [2000-12-10 12:36:36]: uid: (max/max) gid: (max/max) cmd: finger.cgi [2000-12-10 12:36:36]: cannot get docroot information (/home/max) This is the guy who has the script I showed you the other day. So what does this error mean? What do I need to do about it? Erin
Re: Debian/apache, update
Okay. An update: 1) the /etc/profile is in fact profile and not .profile. This is what happens when one e-mails when running on a negative amount of sleep and such. As for recreating that whole making-a-dir-with-bad-perms thing I don't think I can do it because whenever I mkdir it has correct perms, regardless of how I am logged in (i.e. my normal user vs. root vs. anything else). Perhaps that was just a fluke. In any case, my people have been alerted as to how to chmod and chown now and know when and when not to play with those ever-so-powerful commands. ;) The I can't FTP thing...well that was just very sad. Despite my co-admin being warned that I need actual information when she's reporting a problem, (Saying, I can't FTP is like saying I don't really feel good, to a doctor) she didn't explain to me that I can't FTP really means she can log in and can play around in any directory but the one with the bad perms. ;) Maybe that whole thing with making the directory was a fluke. Like I said, when I make new dirs, I get 755 perms. She got 644 on her newly made directory, which is bad, considering it renders CD useless. ;) As for the CGI, it still does not work. I entered the line earnest told me to enter. I did so using echo (which is what the rest of the file uses) as well as using print. I tried with and without a semi-colon on the end. I restarted httpd after each change. No help. So now I am pasting the file. This is for a script which runs finger on the machine and prints the e-mail addie to the web user. There is one other script which is not working, but since someone else coded it and he has 13+ scripts in his directory all named things which lead me to believe it could be ANY of them and I don't understand CGI I am just pasting this one and going to assume that the both need the same change and/or ask him what the hell file it is... *sigh* Yeah. I reiterate my suckiness. Here is the script (please excuse naughty language: geeks which are not me having fun, apparantly...: #!/usr/bin/csh -f set fuck=`echo $QUERY_STRING |sed s/yum=/\ /g` echo Content-type: text/html\n\n echo echo HTML echo body bgcolor=white text=black link=red set fucko=`echo $fuck|grep +` if( $fucko == $fuck ) then echo Please enter only one name, first or last, at a time. else finger [EMAIL PROTECTED]./result set fucke = `cat ./result |grep finger:` echo $fucke echo `cat ./result |./login` endif echo /body echo /html Again, Apache says it's a matter of premature headers (I think. Been a few days), and the web browser translates that into: There has been an internal error, please e-mail webmaster@Erin'sdomain.edu :P Erin
Debian apache woes
Okay. I am completely and utterly at a loss here. I feel as if someone has stolen my brain because I should not be this stupid. I am, however, a relative linux fledgling (I have been windows-free for about a year and a half on the outside, and that's if I take out various pitfalls but anyway...). So I'm going to this tiny liberal arts college where I am one of four people I know who run linux on campus. I shit you not. Most people don't want to have to learn computers. So I am a small fish in a tiny pond, making me one of the most knowledgable people here and this is how I was selected to admin this student-run webserver which runs Linux. My co-admin is very slowly learning small commands while she does most of the HTML and I just, well, geek. Except I suck at it. I'm running debian potato (I run woody at home but I wouldn't trust it on a server till it's distributed officially) and apache 1.3.9. (I know, it is old, but it's the latest version in potato as far as I can see.) I'm having the following problems: 1) The worst: Despite having umask 022 in /etc/.profile and everyone's personal .profiles, newly created directories are randomly getting bad perms. This is bad because most of my users don't know what the hell permissions are, having none (except in very limited cases) in windows. I just taught my two main cronies about chmod 755 and 644 (for regular web files), but this shit can't keep happening. (For FTPed files, I set up a umask in the wu-ftpd ftpaccess file to set things at 644 which seemed to work.) 2) Periodically and randomly people alert me I can't FTP. This seems to occassionally clear up or people just tell me I'm not having a problem anymore. Since I can FTP fine, and can test the files I put there via FTP, I really can't see what the problem is for these people. Are they being stupid? I don't know, because it's now happened to two different people. 3) After having CGI scripts forbidden for a while I finally found the umpteenth place where I had to put an ExecCGI in the apache config files and now every CGI script on the page (one for using finger to return e-mail addresses of people put into the search thing via a second page frame, and one for a message board) is run and returns internal errors. The error in /etc/logs/apache/error.log is that there is a premature ending of headers. I am not usually this stupid. Honestly. I run my own machine virtually error-free. Apache is simply the bane of my fucking existance. Please give me ANY input you can. I'm going away for a semester and my co-admin thought this would be fine until everything simultaneously decided to break this week. :P Erin
