[ic] NoAbsolute set error in log for interchange.pid

Mike Heins interchange-users@icdevgroup.org
Thu Apr 24 11:38:01 2003


Quoting Kevin Old (kold@carolina.rr.com):
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I've got a site running IC 4.9.7 without any problems on the users end. 
> On the admin interface end, the following error appears in the
> error.log:
> 
> 172.16.8.14 2iHKQ2VR:172.16.8.14 - [24/April/2003:09:52:00 -0400] em
> /cgi-bin/em/admin/genconfig.html Can't read file
> '/usr/lib/interchange/etc/interchange.pid' with NoAbsolute set
> 
> 
> Here's the permissions for the /usr/lib/interchange/etc directory
> drwxr-xr-x    3 ic       ic           4096 Apr 24 09:49 etc
> 
> Here's permissions for interchange.pid:
> 
> -rw-------    1 ic       ic              6 Apr 24 09:49 interchange.pid
> 
> There are no noticeable errors on the front end, and I can get to
> everything I need without any problems.  Just thought this error should
> be addressed.
> 
> Any ideas?

You will find that the Administration->Info page won't show the Interchange
PID.

This should be addressed in the latest; we added additional file security
and that case (accessing an arbitrary file outside the catalog tree)
is not addressed.

You can actually stop the error with this in interchange.cfg:

	CatalogUser  em  ic

-- 
Mike Heins
Perusion -- Expert Interchange Consulting    http://www.perusion.com/
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