Error 500 when viewing Critical Systems page

[Tom Diehl]

On Tue, 12 Jun 2007, Gary Baluha wrote:

> On 6/11/07, Tom Diehl <tdiehl at rogueind.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 11 Jun 2007, Gary Baluha wrote:
>> 
>> > I have been getting intermittent "Error 500" errors when viewing the
>> > Critical Systems page.  This is the familiar "Internal Server
>> Error"-type of
>> > message.  I haven't yet been able to find a pattern of when I get the
>> > errors, but most of the time, it works just fine.  The only thing I have
>> > been able to find in the apache log messages is:
>> >
>> > [Mon Jun 11 23:14:29 2007] [error] [client 172.21.3.118] Premature end
>> of
>> > script headers: hobbit-nkview.sh, referer: http://hobbit.cuc.net/
>> >
>> > I was having this problem before, but was running a non-patched
>> > 4.2.0version, which was upgraded from an earlier version.  I have
>> > since moved to
>> > a brand new server, with a fresh compile/install of 4.2.0 with the
>> latest
>> > allinone patch.  The OS is Red Hat EL4 Update 5.
>> 
>> You might want to try "setenforce 0" and see if that lets it work. I have
>> this
>> exact problem. I need to figure out how to label the hobbit files to make
>> things work, with selinux in enforcing mode. It is on my "round tuit"
>> list.
>> 
>> Has anyone figured out how to make hobbit work with selinux enabled? If so
>> a
>> pointer to a doc would be appreciated.
>
>
> We don't use selinux here, and have run into problems with it before, so
> when I did the install of the OS, I specifically disabled it.  I checked
> with the setenforce command, and it does indeed say selinux is disabled.
>
>> Is there any way that I can get more detailed logging as to what exactly
>> the
>> > problem is?
>> 
>> Did you look in /var/log/messages or in /var/log/hobbit/*?
>
>
> Yep.  Nada.  Or at least, not anything related to the Error 500 issue.  But
> at least I now know I'm not the only one with this problem.

To be clear, doing setenforce 0 fixes the problem for me. Mine is a labeling
problem.

Regards,

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