Well, I'm not sure what note you are referring to, but on the subject of
file permissions, I do carry around a hardcopy of a note I got from Support
in March that says for a non-root user to start the NetviewWebServer
so that the httpd will have the ability to run cgi-bin, root user must add
permissions to the NetviewWebServer binary as follows:
# chown root /usr/.OV/web/httpd/NetvVewWebServer
# chmod u+s /usr/OV/web/httpd/NetViewWebServer
There is a pencil not in it in my hadwriting that says it is already like
that, so I don't know if it needs it or not.
The note also included the caveat that the 'chmod_web_ovw -a' might fail
on line 43 for the subdirectory
/usr/OV/web/jttpd/htdocs/TME10/NetCiew/images/symbols
if you have 3rd party apps on that greatly increase the number of symbols.
I think this has been corrected at current levels. For those of you at 5.1,
however, the workaround is:
Line 42: change "cd images/symbols" to "cd images"
Line 43: change "chmod a+rw *" to " chmod -R a+rw symbols"
Then re-run chmod_web_ovw -a.
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
Hi
The file permission you are looking I think is located
/opt/OV/sockets/dynamic.
Ed
-----Original Message-----
From: Gil Irizarry [mailto:NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu]
Sent: Friday, October 15, 1999 1:56 PM
To: IRIZARRG@LABS.WYETH.COM; NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
Subject: Re: NV 5.1.2 Web Access
James:
The user is logged in as non-root. The default map is the only map and it is
open with "read/write" .
I did exec 'chmod_web_ovw -a' and still no Web browser. I am using port 8181
rather than 80, this is not new. I had AIX NV 5.1.1 running this way. Leslie
had sent a note about permissions on a directory needed to be change, that
is the note I am missing.
If I, log in as root all works well.
ps -ef |grep NetView
netop 16272 1 0 10:42:15 - 0:00
/usr/OV/web/httpd/NetViewWebServer
netop 20682 16272 0 10:42:15 - 0:00
/usr/OV/web/httpd/NetViewWebServer
netop 34574 23234 0 10:44:03 - 0:00
/usr/OV/web/httpd/cgi-bin/TME10_NetView_Binaries/webquery
Thanks in advance to all, for all the help you given me in the past and
future.....
Gil Irizarry
>>> James Shanks <James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM> 10/14 12:40 PM >>>
I don't understand Gil. You have to have a read-write map open but it does
not
have to be under root.
My 5.1.2 works fine that way. The browser will need some map or other
open
read-write, period.
You could create another map. Is that what you were thinking of?
Is this the append from Leslie you have in mind? Dated 05/19/99:
The web browser will latch onto the first running r/w ovw that it finds.
You can have more than one map in Netview. 'default' is one map. You can
make
more maps, each with an IP Internet submap. Check out File...Save Map As
and then
customize that map to be different. Call is something else besides
'default'.
Now you have two maps, and the consequent increased level of administration
that
goes with it (eg nodes must be deleted from all maps to be rediscovered.)
You can open map A on the Server. If it is r/w, the next browser you start
will
see that map. If you close that map, and open map B r/w somewhere else (eg
on an
X-emulation session somewhere), and then start the browsers, they will see
that map.
Now you can open map A (r/w if you want) on the Server and see something
different
than the browsers are seeing.
What will happen if you start more browsers, or restart the original
browser at this
point? I don't know. They will see the 'first one they find', whatever that
means.
You could try it and let us know....
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
(248) 552-4968 Voicemail, Fax, Pager
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James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Gil Irizarry <IRIZARRG@LABS.WYETH.COM> on 10/14/99 12:16:27 PM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
NetView
<NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks/Tivoli Systems)
Subject: NV 5.1.2 Web Access
All:
I have upgraded to AIX NV5.1.2 and the only problem I had so far is, that
in
order for the Web server to function, I need the "READ/WRITE" map open under
root. I had this problem when I upgraded to 5.1.1.
Leslie Clark posted the work around, but, I have lost it.
Does any one have a copy of Leslie's note or know the solution?
Thanks in advance.
Gil Irizarry
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