[pca] Serious problem with pca proxy today

[Martin Paul]

Hi,

> and (after about 3 minutes) 2 thousand processes running.
> ...
> webservd  7467  7466   0 11:25:34 ?           0:00 /usr/sfw/bin/wget -q 
> -O /tmp/README.137111-0412174963347462 http://ftp.gfz-pots

It seems as if the proxy is contacting "http://ftp.gfz-pots.." to get 
the README instead of SunSolve. You might have the proxy contacting 
itself here due to a misconfiguration.

Can you check for pca.conf and pca-proxy.conf files on the proxy, and 
see if "patchurl" is set to "http://ftp.gfz-pots.." in one of them? You 
probably have the proxy pick up /etc/pca.conf which is configured with 
xrefurl/patchurl settings for pca running as a client. For backward 
compatibility, pca-proxy.cgi reads not only pca-proxy.conf but pca.conf 
files as well. Better use e.g. /usr/local/etc/pca.conf (if pca is 
installed in /usr/local/bin) and /etc/pca-proxy.conf or pca-proxy.conf 
in the directory where pca-proxy.cgi is located on a machine that runs 
pca both as a proxy and as a client.

If this is not the problem, please add "debug=1" to the proxy 
configuration file. This should put debug output from the proxy into 
/tmp/pca-proxy-debug.txt - we can take a closer look at that to see 
what's going on.

Martin.