Re: cannot create lock file

[Rick Macdonald]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2001, Dalius Gilvydis wrote:

> Rick-
> 
> These are the files in /usr/local/bin...  should they be owned by gnats 
> user or root?
> 
> drwxr-xr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 18 14:06 .
> drwxr-xr-x   16 root     root         4096 Apr  1 18:01 ..
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          980 Sep 18 14:06 edit-pr
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        77676 Sep 18 14:06 getclose
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2590 Sep 18 14:06 install-sid
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          982 Sep 18 14:06 nedit-pr
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        59232 Sep 18 14:06 nquery-pr
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3915 Apr  1 18:01 pth-config
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        80372 Sep 18 14:06 query-pr
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        14577 Sep 18 14:06 send-pr
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        52472 Sep 18 14:06 sub-type

Compared to you I have these differences:

-r-sr-xr-x   1 gnats    other      71388 Jan 13  2000 gen-index
-r-xr-xr-x   1 gnats    other     139208 Jan 13  2000 gnatsd
-r-sr-xr-x   1 gnats    other     111200 Jan 13  2000 pr-edit
-r-sr-xr-x   1 gnats    other      72428 Jan 13  2000 queue-pr

But from the command line you are OK, right? You might as well fix the
ownership and setuid anyway. You must not have run "make install" to
install those, because it does the setuid etc. You have to run make
install as root.

You might try just making locks 777 and be done with it.

You might try running gnatsd from the command-line with --not-inetd and
then attach strace to it (truss on Solaris) and watch what happens when it
tries to make the lock file. It must be somthing simple, but I don't see
it.

> At 06:45 PM 9/20/2001 -0600, you wrote:
> 
> >You need to look at the permissions of the gnats-admin/locks directory.
> >
> >
> >On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Dalius Gilvydis wrote:
> >
> > > At 05:58 PM 9/20/2001 -0600, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> > > >On Thu, 20 Sep 2001, Dalius Gilvydis wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > I've got an interesting locking problem that I cannot figure out...
> > > > >
> > > > > I can succesfully creat edit query PRs from the unix command
> > > > > line.  *However*, I cannot edit PRs using TkGnats or gnatsweb.  I 
> > get an
> > > > > error that says:
> > > > >
> > > > > Cannot create lock file
> > > > > /usr/local/share/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-adm/locks/3.lock  The PR has not
> > > > been
> > > > > changed. If this problem persists, please contact a GNATS 
> > administrator.
> > > > >
> > > > > Any ideas as to what could be happening?  I am able to create and 
> > query
> > > > PRs
> > > > > using tkgnats and gnatsweb, but not edit.  I am using gnats v3.113.1,
> > > > > tkgnats v.3.0.18, and gnatsweb v.2.9.0.  Any help would be 
> > appreciated...
> > > >
> > > >tkgnats and gnatsweb both talk to gnatsd. Perhaps gnatsd is not set to 
> > > >run
> > > >as the gnats user in /etc/inetd.conf so you have a permissions problem
> > > >writing to /usr/local/share/gnats/gnats-db/gnats-adm/locks.
> > > >
> > > >...RickM...
> > >
> > > This is what my /etc/xinetd.d/support file looks like.  It takes place of
> > > the inetd.conf file.  The user is set as gnats and the rest of the params
> > > look good.
> > >
> > > service support
> > > {
> > >          socket_type             = stream
> > >          protocol                = tcp
> > >          wait                    = no
> > >          user                    = gnats
> > >          server                  = /usr/local/libexec/gnats/gnatsd
> > >          server_args             = gnatsd
> > > }
> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------
> > > This is what my /usr/local/libexec/gnats/ contents looks like.  are the
> > > permissions correct??
> > >
> > > drwxrwxr-x    2 root     root         4096 Sep 18 14:06 .
> > > drwxrwxr-x    3 root     root         4096 Sep 18 14:06 ..
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4078 Sep 18 14:06 at-pr
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3151 Sep 18 14:06 check-db
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         4683 Sep 18 14:06 delete-pr
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        82772 Sep 18 14:06 file-pr
> > > -r-sr-xr-x    1 gnats    root        49708 Sep 18 14:06 gen-index
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         9717 Sep 18 14:06 gnats-edit-pr
> > > -r-xr-xr-x    1 gnats    root       106088 Sep 18 14:06 gnatsd
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         3160 Sep 18 14:06 mail-query
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2374 Sep 18 14:06 mkcat
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5037 Sep 18 14:06 mkdist
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        52792 Sep 18 14:06 npr-addr
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        55608 Sep 18 14:06 npr-edit
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        47468 Sep 18 14:06 pr-addr
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        75628 Sep 18 14:06 pr-age
> > > -r-sr-xr-x    1 gnats    root        82644 Sep 18 14:06 pr-edit
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        53080 Sep 18 14:06 pr-mail
> > > -r-sr-xr-x    1 gnats    root        50924 Sep 18 14:06 queue-pr
> > > -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         2404 Sep 18 14:06 rmcat
> > > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > >
> > > Maybe I shouldn't be putting things in /etc/xinetd.d/support?
> > >
> > > Dalius
> > >
> > >
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> >
> >...RickM...
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...RickM...