[Xymon] Need help with upgrade from 4.3.17 to 4.3.20

[J.C. Cleaver]

On Thu, May 21, 2015 9:13 am, Mark Felder wrote:
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> On Thu, May 21, 2015, at 11:11, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>> On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 11:46 AM, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
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>> > On Thu, May 21, 2015, at 10:20, Asif Iqbal wrote:
>> > > On Thu, May 21, 2015 at 10:51 AM, Root, Paul T
>> > > <Paul.Root at centurylink.com>
>> > > wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >  So really dumb question here. Did you restart apache after
>> removing
>> > > > 4.3.17 and installing 4.3.20?
>> > > >
>> > >
>> > > Yep, few times.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Ok, so ScriptAlias is from mod_alias, but that doesn't mean cgi
>> binaries
>> > are actually going to work.
>> >
>> > Is mod_cgi actually loaded?
>> >
>> > apachectl -t -D DUMP_MODULES | grep cgi
>> >
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>> cgi module was not present. I just installed it and now most of the
>> column
>> works! Thanks a lot!
>>
>> I still get the content of the binary for the following columns. rest
>> are
>> good now
>>
>> bbd
>> memory
>> xymond
>> xymonnet
>>
>> I also restored svcstatus.sh from hardlink to symlink and removed the
>> two
>> SetHandler lines
>>
>> Still all the columns now working except the above four. Until I had the
>> cgi module installed
>> none of the columns were working.
>>
>> Thanks Mark for taking it very close to completely working!
>>
>>
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> They're all calling svcstatus.sh, so I am guessing you have a browser
> cache issue.
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Nice deductions! :) This seems like a good candidate for adding to the
FAQ/known docs -- especially if it's not always typical to have mod_cgi
present and loaded in some distros.


>> I also restored svcstatus.sh from hardlink to symlink and removed the
>> two

So just to confirm: the config still works when the .sh files are
hardlinked as well? (And without FollowSymLinks?) If there's any issue
there, I'd like to get a fix into the install scripts before releasing a
4.3.21 update.


Regards,

-jc