[Serusers] serweb and fifo

[Meghan Patricia Byrne]

The last line of my apache error log file says:

mkfifo: cannot create fifo ``/tmpwebfifo_27066970'': Permission denied

Obviously, it's missing the slash in the path, but why would this be and
where would I fix it?

Meghan

Meghan Patricia Byrne
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
Email: gte705u at prism.gatech.edu

On Mon, 7 Apr 2003, Jiri Kuthan wrote:

> looking at functions.php makes me think that possible reasons
> include failure to create a reply fifo in tmp directory,
> opening it for reading or reading from it. (serweb creates
> a temporary reply fifo over which SER tells back about completion
> status of original serweb's FIFO request).
>
> I don't know though, why that happens. Sending your server's log
> might make  the problem clearer.
>
> -Jiri
>
>
> At 06:16 AM 4/7/2003, Meghan Patricia Byrne wrote:
> >I did this.  Now the error across the top of the screen is gone, but the
> >red error message on the webpage has changed to "sorry -- fifo reading
> >error".  /tmp/ser_fifo is both readable and writeable by the web server,
> >and so I don't know what could be causing this.  Further ideas?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Meghan
> >
> >Meghan Patricia Byrne
> >Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> >Email: gte705u at prism.gatech.edu
> >
> >On Thu, 3 Apr 2003, Jiri Kuthan wrote:
> >
> >> Make /tmp/ser_fifo writeable by your web daemon. That's the pipe
> >> through which external apps like serweb talk to SER and need to
> >> have write permissions for it.
> >>
> >> -Jiri
> >>
> >> At 07:59 AM 4/3/2003, Meghan Patricia Byrne wrote:
> >> >I've successfully installed serweb and am able to log in.  However, once I
> >> >do so, I get the following error:
> >> >
> >> >Warning: fopen(/tmp/ser_fifo) [function.fopen]: failed to create stream:
> >> >Permission denied in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/serweb/functions.php on line
> >> >172
> >> >
> >> >at the top of the screen, and the message "sorry -- cannot open fifo" in
> >> >red letters on the webpage above the user's information.  I'm wondering if
> >> >ser or apache needs to be configured somewhere with the correct
> >> >permissions or ownership to make this work.
> >> >
> >> >Thanks!
> >> >Meghan Byrne
> >> >
> >> >Meghan Patricia Byrne
> >> >Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
> >> >Email: gte705u at prism.gatech.edu
> >> >
> >> >
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