Re: [cobalt-users] GUI Site List errors...

[flash22@xxxxxxx]

On Sat, 13 Oct 2001, Jeff Lasman wrote:
> > /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteList/siteList.cgi
> 
> When I try this on a RaQ4, I get an "offline" mode that asks me for
> entries.  I have no idea what to type here, and I have to fix this
> system as soon as possible.

Well, you can make it do what you probably , maybe expected like this:

perl /usr/admserv/cgi-bin/.cobalt/siteList/siteList  "info=1"

Passing cgi args on the command linemakes it stop asking for them, info is
(on older raq's) a hook to make this work.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?  This is a working machine with twenty sites, and
> I need to add 50 more asap.  When I tried to add a site I got an error
> message something about a "shadow" file" (not the "shadow" file used to
> store passwords).  I've tried since and can't duplicate this error, but
> I keep getting a "Group home site1 already exists" error.

T think you are at too hign a level to find it from the cgi's you pobably
need to be running one of the lowe add site scripts, but its' not gonna be
vey informative, there is on older machine a debugging flag (touch
/etc/DEBUG which makes the scripting log more (i thnk, havn't really tried
it, just seen it being checked here and there)

group shadow ?

That message looks kinda like the machine thinks there is a group named 
"home site1" (eg with a space stuck in it , or is trying to create one)

Stray 2cents for what its; worth, 

ps: man CGI , /debugging ;has more info about parameters to the perl CGI
interface, the main problem is, it's expecting the stuff the browser would
have supplied as named form variables....so you have to take apart
the html to figure out what it wants here...(The info thing is
special-magic)

gsh