Re: Trouble in gnats/gnatsweb configuration

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 08:50 06.06.01 +0200, Stefano Carlini wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> I have a problem during gnats and gnatsweb configuration.
> My system is a Red-Hat 6.2 distribution on Intel x86 platform.
> I installed
>
>         - gnats-3.113.1 and
>         - gnatsweb-2.8.0
>
> I had the first problems during the test for gnatsweb;
> trying to test the configuration (typing "make test USERNAME=gnats
> PASSWORD=gnatsuser DATABASE=gnats-db")
> I received the following error message:
>
> > perl test.pl
> > Content-type: text/html
>
> > <H1>Software error:</H1>
> > <CODE>Can't call method &quot;header&quot; on an undefined value at
> gnatsweb.pl line 2199, &lt;SOCK&gt; chunk 1.
> > </CODE>
> > <P>
> > For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error
> message
> > and the time and date of the error.
>
> > [Wed Jun  6 08:30:49 2001] test.pl: Can't call method "header" on an
> undefined value at gnatsweb.pl line 2199, <SOCK> chunk 1.
> > connect...........................................FAIL
> > make: *** [test] Error 29
>
> I looked at my system and I saw the gnats daemon (gnatsd) wasn't running!!!
>
> I tried to start it but I received the following message:
>
> > [gnats@linux1 gnats-adm]$ /usr/local/libexec/gnats/gnatsd
> > 520 You are not on the host access list: stdin (stdin).

First and foremost: gnatsd is being started by inetd only when someone 
tries to contact your machine on port 1529. Thus, you'll seldom see gnatsd 
running by doing a "ps".

It looks as though you have fallen into a well-known trap in GNATS setup. 
The docs aren't stating clearly that you need a file /etc/gnats-db.conf 
even if you only have a single database on your system (this has been made 
clearer in the docs that come with Gnatsweb 2.8.1). This file is (kind-of) 
documented in Appendix C of the GNATS manual, and it basically maps the 
physical directory location of your GNATS database to an alias name. This 
alias name is the one you're supposed to give to the "make test" command.

Hope this helps,
Yngve Svendsen