[cobalt-developers] Big problem

["Eric Beck [BWSD Administration]" <admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi:

I hope someone can help, because apparently support at cobalt is closed on
weekends...so I'm out of luck.

Here's what I did...first time running CPAN, so it asks for the config
routine, right...ok..I was installing Digest

perl -MCPAN -e "install Digest::MD5"

ok...so then I did a silly thing, I know..in a rush, not thinking, brain
dead for a moment, instead of investigating, making sure, etc., especially
with the Cobalt, which I'm new at but which I've learned quickly, is a
dilly to reckon with.

I chose to let it autoconfigure

it did this


The CPAN module will need a few external programs to work
properly. Please correct me, if I guess the wrong path for a program.
Don't panic if you do not have some of them, just press ENTER for
those.

Where is your gzip program? [/bin/gzip]

Where is your tar program? [/bin/tar]

Warning: unzip not found in PATH
Where is your unzip program? []

Where is your make program? [/usr/bin/make]

Where is your lynx program? [/usr/bin/lynx]

Where is your ncftpget program? [/usr/bin/ncftpget]

Where is your ftp program? [/usr/bin/ftp]

What is your favorite pager program? [/usr/bin/less]

What is your favorite shell? [/bin/sh]

Every Makefile.PL is run by perl in a separate process. Likewise we
run 'make' and 'make install' in processes. If you have any parameters
(e.g. PREFIX, INSTALLPRIVLIB, UNINST or the like) you want to pass to
the calls, please specify them here.

If you don't understand this question, just press ENTER.

Parameters for the 'perl Makefile.PL' command? []

Parameters for the 'make' command? []

Parameters for the 'make install' command? []



Sometimes you may wish to leave the processes run by CPAN alone
without caring about them. As sometimes the Makefile.PL contains
question you're expected to answer, you can set a timer that will
kill a 'perl Makefile.PL' process after the specified time in seconds.

If you set this value to 0, these processes will wait forever. This is
the default and recommended setting.

Timeout for inactivity during Makefile.PL? [0]



If you're accessing the net via proxies, you can specify them in the
CPAN configuration or via environment variables. The variable in
the $CPAN::Config takes precedence.

Your ftp_proxy? []

Your http_proxy? []

Your no_proxy? []



WAIT support is available as a Plugin. You need the CPAN::WAIT module
to actually use it.  But we need to know your favorite WAIT server. If
you don't know a WAIT server near you, just press ENTER.

Your favorite WAIT server?
   [wait://ls6.informatik.uni-dortmund.de:1404]

commit: wrote /usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CPAN/Config.pm
We have to reconfigure CPAN.pm due to following uninitialized parameters:

urllist

/usr/lib/perl5/5.00503/CPAN/Config.pm initialized.

##### Then it finished..it went on and it came back to the prompt again,
and I hit [enter] more time, to finish off, and it went into the routine,
installing MD5...it finished (no, I didn't capture the output)...so now, I
can't get the web server restarted, after trying a reboot.  I'm not even
sure if this is what caused the problem...cause I had done something else
at the time too, which I don't think affected it...I do think it's probably
something with the CPAN install there..

I had disabled cgiwrap on one virtual host, in exchange for setting up a
regular ScriptAlias'ed cgi-bin behind the public web root.  I don't know
whether this would affect anything or not...the domain in question is a
virtualhost using the domain name VirtualHost method under the IP address...  

I had been doing one other thing in the shell, just to include full info
here... I was about to install the OpenSRS scripts, and I had inadvertently
logged on as admin, and forgot to su to root before running the tar -xvf on
the OpenSRS tar file.  So then I was using chown to set them to root, as
they installed anyway with 1000 as the owner and the group as 1000.  So
anyway, chown seemed to hang for a while when I used the -R switch, so I
attributed it to something weird in the connection, and broke my connection.

When I go into the shell, now, I can run the ls command, for instance in
other directories, but when I go down to /home/httpd/ and run ls it just
hangs and does nothing....  I had set the ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/
/home/httpd/cgi-bin/  so the OpenSRS scripts were installed underneath that.

Big time problem, and I'm hoping someone can help me with this .... I know
everyone is busy, but if there's anyone who knows what I should do to fix
this, please let me know.  I've just started with the RaQ3i, never had a
Cobalt before...messed with BSDi before.  Have OpenSRS running on that, and
am going to migrate to the RAQ3i, but can't seem to get started here... :-)

help!!!

Eric