I'm trying to install Yaws on my Ubuntu 11.01 system via apt-get install yaws. But when I call the shell script yaws from the command line I get the following error: Yaws: Bad conf: "Can't find config file "
Unless my aging eyes are missing something, I can't find enlightenment in either the Yaws website or Zachery Kessin's book.
I can find configuration files in /etc/yaws. But is there something else I need to know/do?
Thanks,
LRP
If you installed yaws with the package manager then it's controlled by an init script (and you should work with that instead of running yaws manually, I'll add).
You're most likely running yaws as a non-privileged user, and if you look closely, the directory /etc/yaws is:
drwxr-x--- 4 root yaws 4096 Aug 7 10:36 yaws
You're probably trying to run yaws under a user other than root, and without membership in the yaws group.
I would venture a guess that this is a bug in the distro's packaging rather than in yaws since the man page clearly states that running it as a non-privileged user it falls back to reading /etc/yaws/yaws.conf, except that under Debian/Ubuntu (I'm on Debian 6) the permissions on /etc/yaws/ do not live up to the claim in the map page.
But, if you work through the distro's init script and daemon management facilities your problem goes away magically. That I think is preferable to tapping the Debian packager on the shoulder and having a long conversation about config directory permissions. :)
Try doing the following.
$ touch yaws.conf
$ yaws
Hit the enter key to bring up the prompt. Works on Debian 7 (wheezy).
You may also want to do the following to place your username in the yaws group.
$ adduser USERNAME yaws
To one of the maintainers of this package found in the readme file, I have pointed them to here.
$ dpkg -L yaws | grep -i readme
My system is Debian 7 or often called wheezy distro. It's actually kali-linux but that's just fyi stuff. I browsed to /etc/yaws as root with nautilus otherwise it's locked.
~$ sudo su
[sudo] password for username:
# nautilus
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Now you may look in the /etc/yaws directory.
The yaws.conf should be in there. Josef would be correct as this is what yaws will try to use if the user has access to this file. But not being root you don't.
My solution is to just get ideas out of that file and the others within the same directory. Take this next answer from Van and make your home/user have a yaws.conf and play around with different configurations from what you found in the etc one. Not that hard to copy and paste if you just have access to the files. Enjoy! :-D
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My vagrant VM box is super slow when I try to run my Rails app on it, and I'm guessing it's due to the shared folder problem.
I am trying to use rsync to circumvent the problem.
I installed Cygwin and necessary packages, put C:\cygwin64\bin; as PATH environment variable
and then changed my Vagrantfile to
config.vm.synced_folder ".", "/vagrant", type: "rsync"
When I run vagrant up, I Get this error message
$ vagrant up Bringing machine 'default' up with 'virtualbox'
provider... "rsync" could not be found on your PATH. Make sure that
rsync is properly installed on your system and available on the PATH.
What's going wrong here?
Thank you so much ... if there's any other way to run Vagrant VM box smoothly and faster on Windows 7, I would love to hear it too.
This turned out to be a bunch of brick-walls you have to circumvent when installing Rsync and setting it up correctly for Vagrant on Windows 7.
First of all, the error "rsync" could not be found on your PATH. Make sure that rsync is properly installed on your system and available on the PATH. was due to the fact that
1) Environment variable for Cygwin was placed in the latest order in the PATH, I changed it to the beginning of the path
2) During installation of Cygwin and Rsync, I installed individual "subpackages" instead of installing everything, thinking that it would be okay. Turns out I was wrong. I installed everything in the Admin package and Net package (not the SRC but just the bins), and then it started working. I suggest you set-up Cygwin again and really try to download everything if you see that error.
(I found these solutions through this post on SO cygwin + rsync)
Now, I could go into CMD and type rsync, and it would show up correctly. But then when I ran vagrant up it gave me another error saying
There was an error when attempting to rsync a synced folder. Please inspect the error message below for more info.
Host path: /c/Users/xxxxx Guest path: /vagrant
Command: rsync --verbose --archive --delete -z --copy-links
--chmod=ugo=rwX --no-perms --no-owner --no-group --rsync-path sudo rsync -e ssh -p 2222 -o StrictHostKeyCh
/c/Users/xxxx / vagrant#127.0.0.1:/vagrant
Error: cygwin warning: MS-DOS style path detected:
C:/Users/xxxxxxx Preferred POSIX
equivalent is:
/cygdrive/c/Users/xxxx CYGWIN
environment variable option "nodosfilewarning" turns off this warning.
Consult the user's guide for more details about POSIX paths:
http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#using-pathnames Warning: Permanently added '[127.0.0.1]:2222' (ECDSA) to the list of
known hosts. rsync: change_dir "/c/Users/xxxxxxx"
failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: some files/attrs
were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at
/usr/src/ports/rsync/rsync-3.0.9-1/src/rsync-3.0.9/main.c(1052)
[sender=3.0.9]
I googled solution to this error and found this site. https://github.com/mitchellh/vagrant/issues/3230
Then there's a bug with Vagrant and cwrsync that I mentioned in #3086.
For now, just edit
C:\HashiCorp\Vagrant\embedded\gems\gems\vagrant-1.5.1\plugins\synced_folders\rsync\helper.rb
and add hostpath = "/cygdrive" + hostpath to line 74. It's a terrible
solution but quick and simple.
Editing that helper.rb file and adding hostpath at line 74 (just made some blank lines right there and pasted it in) and now it works perfectly!!!!
Rsync makes the shared folder soooooo much faster on Rails!!!! I think it is worth the pain of setting it up correctly. Try it!!
It's not clear from your message, but I think you installed rsync on your machine (the host), while it needs to be installed on the virtual machine you bringing up (the guest).
I just upgraded my nginx from 1.4.2 (/usr/local) to 1.4.7 (yum) on AWS EC2. I now have a pair of errors occuring on the client side:
GET https://subdomain.mysite.com/assets/application.css net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH
GET https://subdomain.mysite.com/assets/application.js net::ERR_CONTENT_LENGTH_MISMATCH
I am at a loss for this and google has not been much help. Any ideas on where to start? All help appreciated. Could the switch from a manual install to a yum install be the issue?
I can confirm answer 1 addresses the underlying problem (I'm a new SE user so I can't upvote it yet). Here is more detail for search engines:
From /var/log/nginx/error.log
2014/04/30 08:07:48 [crit] 35135#0: *116437 open() "/var/lib/nginx/proxy/7/09/0000001097" failed (13: Permission denied) while reading upstream
In my case this happened because I recently changed the user under which nginx runs (the default nginx config uses www-data in /etc/nginx/nginx.conf).
My solution was to chown -R correct_user:root /var/lib/nginx/proxy. I imagine I could also have rm -rf'd the existing /var/lib/nginx/proxy subdirectories with the expectation that nginx would recreate them using the correct_user as owner.
eric-francis thanks for figuring this out! This easily saved me a day of hunting.
tail -f /usr/local/var/log/nginx/error.log
You may see something like:
"/usr/local/var/run/nginx/proxy_temp/9/04/0000000049" failed (13:
Permission denied) while reading upstream
Heres how I fixed:
sudo nginx -s stop
sudo rm -rf /usr/local/var/run/nginx/*
Ok, so this can be fixed in a couple of ways. The thing to do is check your log file.
Mine was located at /usr/share/nginx/log/error-appname.log
Tail the log and you will find that user defined in your config file (mine is at /etc/nginx/nginx.conf) most likely does not have permissions to something. I use user nobody.
For one app I had to give u+rx (nginx needs executable) to my application user's home folder all the way to my application's public assets directory.
On another server, nobody was not able to write to nginx's /var/lib/nginx/tmp/proxy folder. So I had to chown nobody /var/lib/nginx down to the /proxy folder nobody was trying to write to.
I'm trying to install Jenkins on a Tomcat 7 container.
When I try to open the Jenkins web app I get following error:
Unable to create the home directory '/home/myuser/jenkins/work'. This is most
likely a permission problem.
To change the home directory, use JENKINS_HOME environment variable or set
the JENKINS_HOME system property. See Container-specific documentation for
more details of how to do this.
Before starting Tomcat, I did chmod uog+rwx /home/myuser/jenkins. So, I suppose that Jenkins should be able to create a subdirectory there.
But obviously it can't.
How can I fix this problem?
Update 1:
lt -lt returns
drwxrwxrwx 2 root ec2-user 4096 Jun 23 10:25 jenkins
for /home/myuser/jenkins. /home/myuser/jenkins/work doesn't exist because Jenkins is supposed to create it.
Update 2: Just tried to create the work directory and to run chmod uog+rwx on it. It didn't help.
Update 3: Additional information:
I need Jenkins in order to
run lengthy tests in the night (fast unit tests are run before every mvn install, slow tests are executed every night) and
save software quality metrics (checkstyle, PMD, FindBugs, unit test coverage etc.) over time.
I have only one machine available for that and there is a Tomcat7 container installed there already.
At the moment, I don't want to invest additional money into buying new machines.
The machine with the Tomcat7 container (and where I want Jenkins to be installed) is an Amazon EC2 microinstance (OS version is given below).
$ cat /etc/*-release
LSB_VERSION=base-4.0-amd64:base-4.0-noarch:core-4.0-amd64:core-4.0-noarch:printing-4.0-amd64:printing-4.0-noarch
Amazon Linux AMI release 2013.03
Update 4 (29.06.2013 13:34 MSK): The output of yum list does not contain any Jenkins/Hudson package.
If Tomcat is running as a separate user you will need to give execute permission to your home directory to that user - either by giving it to all or by creating a group especially for you and the tomcat user.
(UPDATE) More specifically: You say you already did chmod uog+rwx /home/myuser/jenkins, if Tomcat is not running asl 'myuser' it also needs execute permission on /home and on /home/myuser to be able to open /home/myuser/jenkins. If you are not picky about other users on the system opening your homedir you could allow this by: chmod a+x /home/myuser. (I'm assuming here the permissions for /home are already ok)
If you are running tomcat as 'myuser' the filsystem permissions look fine, but Tomcat's own permission system might be the problem as webapps are not allowed to touch the filesystem if the default settings of the security manager are on.
See: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Tomcat
You don't specify more about your exact Tomcat/OS setup so I can't give exact details, but the fast way to find out if it's a security manager issue is to give AllPermission to you webapp. If you don't run in a safe environment it is advisable to only use that as a test, and setup only the really needed permissions later.
run these three commands
cd /usr/share/tomcat7
sudo mkdir .jenkins
sudo chown tomcat7:nogroup .jenkins
https://seleniumwithjavapython.wordpress.com/home/jenkins-installation/
It looks like the problem may be that jenkins cannot see /home/myuser, and therefore it cannot access the jenkins folder inside this (even though it has write permissions in /home/myuser/jenkins, I believe the fact it can't read /home/myuser causes a problem).
Try running the below command and then see if Jenkins works after that:
chmod +r /home/myuser
#robjohncox Yes - drwx------ 5 myuser myuser 4096 Jun 23 10:25 myuser
you must add +x to this dir to make it possible for jenkins to access it's contents, to be precise whole path has to have +x enabled for everyone.
Also, what commands have you used to move it's home dir from default - possible error is somwhere there. Cheers, Piotr
Trying to get a rails server running nicely.
downloaded ruby 1.8.7 using link from rails page.
did ./configure/make/install, installed it fine.
tried ruby -v , got nothing.
tried ./ruby -v from the folder and it worked.
I feel like i've gone from understanding something about unix, to completely lost. Clearly ruby is working as a 'daemon', but not running as it should. Any help would be MUCH appreciated. Losing too much hair through this process :(
J.
can you see where make install put the ruby executeable?
if you do, check if this dir is in your $PATH by
echo $PATH
In general, unix needs to know where to find the executable file to be able to run it. It uses $PATH to find this executable file.
So if you type "ruby" it will go look at you $PATH and then look in each of those directories for a file named "ruby". If it can't find it in any of those directories it should then also look in the current directory.
So, this whole process will fail if:
a) the directory that contains the executable ruby file is not in any of the directories in $PATH AND
b) the executable is not in the current directory
... one more alternative is that is is available in one of these directories... but is not actually marked as being executable by you. You can check this by making sure you're int e directory with the ruby file and typing "ls -l ./ruby"
That will list the ruby file along with all its permissions and who owns it.
It should be something like:
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2010-02-14 10:45 ./ruby
Notice the rwx. If your ruby doesn't have x then you'll need to add executable permission using chmod eg: "chmod 755 ./ruby"
Also note the "root root" - that means it's owned by root - in general, this means that only root can run it. In this particular example it has eXecute permission for everyone so everybody can run it, but if you do not have execute permission set like this, then it means that if you are trying to run it as yourself, you won't have permission, and you should either add full permissions or try running it using: "sudo ruby"
However - by the sounds of it - the most likely problem is that you just don't have the ruby executable's directory in your $PATH. You will need to fix this even if you get it running right now - because, in future, you will need to run ruby from directories other than the current one.
You will need to google for instructions on adding things to your $PATH - because it differs depending on your version of linux and your current shell, but it's not very difficult.
Which shell are you running? If tcsh, you may need a "rehash". Otherwise, as leifg says, add the directory containing the ruby executable to your path.
I'm using ubuntu and I call gedit by using this command:'sudo gedit filename.java'. I'm newbie in ubuntu so now I can not located that file. Ah I'm using windows XP and ubuntu and I have three disk C,D and E in windows XP the fourth disk for ubuntu is not display in windows XP. Can anyone show me where I can find my file? Thank you very much!
Try looking up the command "find". It will locate files.
The next time you need to find a file and you don't know where it is, just use the locate program included with Ubuntu. Sure, your file most likely won't show up immediately in the slocate database, but it's a really good searcher.
Also, the command line and the run prompt assume that the starting point, that is, the current working directory is always "~" unless you've set it differently. That means that all files and paths are relative to your home folder: /home/username for a user and /root for the root user.
Finally, you do not need to use the sudo command for writing code in your own home directory, and thus you can just stick with gedit filename.java. However, if you ever do need to use a graphical application with root/superuser privileges, use gksu for GTK apps and kdesu for KDE apps. sudo is for when you are running an program or need elevated privileges in a terminal.
Type "man find" into the terminal to get a description of how to use the command. But first place I'd look is the home folder. Open up the terminal and type "~" without quotes.
Open a terminal again ( from where you initially typed sudo ) and type ls -l you have to find it there.