[Mailman-Users] Re: ht://Dig error

[Richard Barrett]

This problem is discussed to some extent in the INSTALL.htdig-mm under the 
heading "htdig Permissions Considerations".

The problem is that the rundig process ends up trying to generate some 
shareable (across the entire intallation) db files in htdig's COMMON_DIR. 
If rundig is first run by the root user then the files are created OK. But 
running as mailman the shared file generation fails because of access 
permissions and is redone (and fails again) each time rundig is run on 
behalf of a list by nightly_htdig.

I solved the problem by making /var/www/htdig/common owned by root:mailman 
and giving the group write privileges over the directory. If you are 
concerned about the security of this then I think you could revert the 
privileges over that directory after the db file in common have been 
created. Personally, I do not bother.

At 16:35 27/02/2003, C. Posey wrote:
>Actually I may have spoken too soon...
>
>I am able to actually perform searches off the TOC now, but I am still 
>getting this error generated from the cronjob...
>
>DB2 problem...: /var/www/htdig/db/word2root.db: Permission denied
>DB2 problem...: /var/www/htdig/db/root2word.db: Permission denied
>/var/www/htdig/bin/rundig: line 68: 30671 Segmentation fault
>$BINDIR/htfuzzy $opts endings
>DB2 problem...: /var/www/htdig/common/synonyms.db: Permission denied
>
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>
>On Thursday, February 27, 2003, at 11:33 AM, C. Posey wrote:
>
>>Thx for all your help Richard!
>>
>>The recompile of htdig did the trick....