Topic: userpanel failure

[Tony Howden]

Hi All

I've just set up a new sme 5.5 server (blade 1 installed) and one of the first tasks was to install the userpanel. I grabbed the latest rpm from the dungog.net site

- e-smith-userpanel-1.0-6.noarch.rpm

and the associated perl rpm's and installed the three rpms in sequence of perls before userpanel. The httpd-admin service failed to restart and so I tried to restart it manually and got a more detailed error.

On checking the cause of this I find in the httpd.conf there is an error relating to "a module failed to open the /etc/e-smith/web/panels/user/cgi-bin directory"

I then checked for its existence and its not there. I am guessing that the latest rpm does not create the directory and that possibly testing has been done over pre-existing installs.

I have now uninstalled the 1.0-6 and reverted to my older copies which installed without error. The cgi-bin directory now exists. I am not wanting to uninstall these now and would appreciate knowing if this is something I am missing or a problem with the latest version.

cheers
Tony

[stephen noble]

possibly recreate the user/cgi-bin with the 'userpanel access' panel

regards
stephen noble

[stephen noble]

>I then checked for its existence and its not there. I am guessing that the latest rpm >does not create the directory and that possibly testing has been done over pre-
>existing installs.

correct, thank you
updates at www.dungog.net/sme/files

%changelog
* Tue Dec 10 2002 Stephen Noble
- Fix actions, saved in dos not unix
- userpanel-backup changed default file save as name to username
- [1.0-7]

tail /var/log/messages
Dec 10 23:39:30 sme5 e-smith[4012]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/conf-userpanel/S50conf-userpanelsymlinks

which creates the dir