[hobbit] Report Creation Error

Henrik Stoerner henrik at hswn.dk
Fri Oct 21 15:47:35 CEST 2005


On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 06:38:52AM -0700, Whilding, Craig wrote:
> 
> Just built a new Hobbit server using the latest version off sourceforge
> as a demo implementation server. Everything is working fine apart from
> the availability reporting and snapshot report. 
> 
> 
> Could not generate report.
> Check that the /usr/local/hobbit/server/www/rep/ directory has
> permissions '-rwxrwxr-x' (775)
> and that is is set to group -1

"group -1" means the report CGI script runs with group-id "-1". 

> I've never had a problem with reporting with any previous version of
> Hobbit. Using RHEL3 running as user hobbit with apache running as
> 'nobody'. Log files are empty so no problems there.

OK, so group-id -1 is probably the "nobody" group.  Do a 
   "chgrp -1 /usr/local/hobbit/server/www/rep/"
to get the ownership on the rep-directory right.


Regards,
Henrik




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