CHAPTER 3. FAQ

1. Find out what user it's running as with 'top'.

2. cd /home/user/

3. rm  rf .spamassasin

4. Then mail them a couple of times to see if it fixes the problem.

Q: What do I do if buildapache.sea bombs out with a lot of nasty looking errors?

A: Do the following:

1. Find out the version (cat /etc/redhat release).

2. Find a server running the same version that works.

3. tar xzvf bits.tgz /usr/include/bits

4. Copy that to the broken server.

5. Backup /usr/include/bits somewhere.

6. tar xzvf bits.tgz from /

Q: What do I do when a Guestbook is not showing anything, I get a blank page when trying to view, and no

errors when submitting?

A: Do the following:

chown nobody /home/username/.guestbook

Make sure 'nobody' can write to it.

Q: What do I do when all the Perl/CGI scripts that are not running as root (including Interchange) get the error

 getgrgid: invalid groupid XXXXX ? From Apache's error log ...

[Tue Mar 26 09:13:16 2002] [error] [client x.x.x.x] (2)No such file or directory: getgrgid: invalid groupid 32015

[Tue Mar 26 09:13:16 2002] [error] (2)No such file or directory: exec of /home/username/public html/utility.cgi

failed

[Tue

Mar

26

09:13:16

2002]

[error]

[client

x.x.x.x]

Premature

end

of

script

headers:

/home/username/public html/script.cgi

A: Do the following:

chmod 644 /etc/group

If that doesn't fix it, check permissions on the passwd file and shadow file as well just for good measure.

Q: What are the default locations for Mailman, exim config, exim log, or the exim reject log?

A: The locations are:

  Mailman lists = /usr/local/cpanel/3rdparty/mailman/lists/

  Exim Config = /etc/exim.conf

  Exim Log = /var/log/exim mainlog

  Exim Reject Log = /var/log/exim rejectlog

Q: What do I do when setting up a trust relationship and I get errors about possible security threats and stuff

about SSH/known hosts?

A: Most likely the master server has changed it's ssl info. The easiest way to remedy this is:

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