RE: [cobalt-developers] Buy Raq 4i or 550 ?

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From: John D. Gorena
Subject: Re: [cobalt-developers] Buy Raq 4i or 550 ?


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 - Runnig CGI programs only seems to work in the base domain.  The users
(Domainname.com/~usersname/) cannot run CGI Programs unless they keep
the file name to 4 characters or less.  No one has been able to tell me
how to extend the number of characters in the URL for CGI to work.  This
seems to be a global system setting.
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John,

I tried your problem on my box.  I am running a Raq550.  Just for giggles
try this script out in one of your user directories.

#!/usr/bin/perl

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "\n";
print "Hi World!";

Save it to a short file.  Like hi.pl and then a long file ... longfile.pl.

I tried to see if I could recreate your problem, and I couldn't.  I am
guessing by your knowledge, you looked at the /var/log/httpd/error file???

What does it say when you go to execute the script (if it fails?).  Post
that
and you may get more of a response.

Is your BlueLinQ set to: http://updates.cobalt.com/packages/

That is where I have mine set to, and it picks them up fairly quickly.  Once
more, I am running a Raq 550.

Just to say something about Quirks.  Regardless of what software you run,
you
will always find some quirks, or features not disclosed.  That is a fact of
life.

If it ticks you off that badly, either run everything on a vanilla linux
system
or purchase a VA linux box.  Or hell, go over to MS.  They can use the
money.

Either which way, personally I have been working & Supporting Cobalts for
about
2 years, prior to Sun involvement.  I love them, I think they do a great
job, and
the times I have had problems, I either found or wrote my own work arounds.
Not
that hard to do, Perl/Php/CLI is pretty easy to learn, especially if you
ever
programmed, even way back in the day under Fortran/QBasic.

Any who, if you want some real help with your scripts, send me the output
from
your error logs.  That usually tell you exactly what is wrong with the
script or
Apache setup.

Take care,

Brian Smith 
CCNA, NCSA
Network Support Engineer
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