[pca] Serious problem with pca proxy today

[Thomas Bleek]

Hello Martin,

your suggestions worked fine. I had installed the pca.conf in /etc two days ago and not noticed the ill effect.
After moving it to /usr/local/etc it works like a charm.

Sorry, but I did not realize that this was a problem.

BTW.: Is it ok to set a softlink from /usr/local/bin/pca to .../cgi-bin/pca-proxy.cgi to get the cgi updated simply with
pca --update now ? Until now I had to copy it manually from /usr/local/bin to the cgi-bin directory after each update.

Thanks for you quick and helpful response,
thomas


Martin Paul wrote:
> 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.
> 

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Dr. Thomas Bleek, Netzwerkadministrator
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