RE: [cobalt-users] Site Management Pages Gone (Monkey Wrench Goes Nowhere)

["Jeff Curnow" <jcurnow@xxxxxxxxx>]

> 
> >
> >Ah I'm glad someone else is seeing this - I've seen it on a 
> couple of 
> >servers now one of which had just been rebuilt and patched so it 
> >couldn't have been a hack.  I have a feeling a patch has screwed 
> >something up somewhere as it seems to happen on deleting a site or 
> >creating a site but not every time.
> >
> >Anyway how to fix that's what you want to know and you'll be glad to 
> >here that it is all nicely scripted by cobalt-aid 
> >http://cobalt-aid2.lindist.dk/index.php
> >
> >go here 
> >http://cobalt-aid2.lindist.dk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Dow
nloads&fil
>e=ind
>ex&req=viewsdownload&sid=9 and download the sitemanage fix, upload it to
>your server in the /home/sites/home/users/admin directory and then untar it
>with tar xvfz siteManage-fix then read the readme file and it will tell you
>untar the templates and then run the script and watch as your site admin
>pages get rebuilt before your eyes it doesn't take long and to a sysadmin
>its almost better than sex.
>
>Had to do this last night right out of the blue on one of a clients 
>boxes so its pretty fresh.
>


OK - this might seem really stupid. I have been all through the archives and
all over Redhat's site. There aren't any directions for how to 'run a
script'. That's one of the most common pieces of help that I see on this
list. There seems to be many different type of possible scripts and you have
to have some sort of magic decoder ring to know exactly which type and which
settings to use when you run them. An enigma device maybe???

This is what is so frustrating about Linux, it has taken me 3.5 hours to try
to lookup how to run this simple command, and now I've screwed up my server
after carefully following what I thought were the correct directions. You
never know which directions are correct, because none of the directions
actually apply to your specific situation. You can never estimate the
veracity of the source of the directions, because of the nature of the
community development.

When I finally did get the command to run, I just ot all of these errors
saying that there was no such file or directory, then it quit.

Oh, there was also a Perl version of the script that somehow wound up in the
root, so I ran that. It seemed to work, but the directions about how to make
a symlink didn't work. It seemed to create sites again, but I don't know why
nothing is showing up.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I'd really love to get this server
running.

Jeff