[Serusers] problem with serwev confirmation...

[Alistair Cunningham]

Barry,

(We seem to be meeting on more than one mailing list today!)

 From your output below, the fifo has owner 777, not permissions 777 - 
perhaps you were doing chown when you meant chmod?

The fifo needs to be writeable by the user your web server is running 
as. On my lab system, it's:

prw-rw-rw-  1 root root 0 Feb 21 10:53 /tmp/ser_fifo

To get this, run the following commands as root:

chown root.root /tmp/ser_fifo
chmod 0666 /tmp/ser_fifo

On production systems, I like to make a 'ser' group, put the ser and 
http server users in it, then chmod 0660 instead of 0666.

Leaving the user in the pending table is a bit ugly, but the system will 
probably still work. You may care to fire up the mysql command line 
client, and do a 'delete from pending' when you know there's no-one in 
the queue.

Alistair Cunningham,
Integrics Ltd,
Telephony, Database, Unix consulting worldwide
+44 (0)7870 699 479
http://integrics.com/


Barry Murphy wrote:
> Ok i've brought this up in the past but no one answered:
> 
> 1./ User signs up
> 2./ User receives confirmation email
> 3./ User clicks on URL
> 4./ User receives:
> Warning: fopen(/tmp/ser_fifo): failed to open stream: Permission denied in
> /www/serweb/html/functions.php on line 206
> sorry -- cannot open write fifo
> We regret but your voipweb.fast.co.nz confirmation attempt failed.
> Please contact voip at fast.co.nz for further assistance.
> 5./ In the backround user is actually added to subscription table but left
> in pending table too, is this a problem?
> 
> prw-rw----  1 777  wheel  0 Mar 10 16:51 /tmp/ser_fifo
> I've tried chmod 777 this file many times, doesnt seem to help
> 
> Any idea's people? Is this ser_fifo file needed, what does it do? How do I
> fix serweb?
> 
> Barry
> 
> P.S. Latest stable Serweb via cvs
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