Re: gnatsd daemon problem

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 19:34 11.07.2001 +0530, S Ramesh wrote:
> ps -ef | grep ?
>
> i could not find gnatsd even i restarted the system. SO what could be
> the problem. Is inetd superserver is a must or xinetd itself can do.
> Only thing is xinetd config is different compared to inetd.

You will seldom be able to see a running natsd process. Xinetd invokes 
gnatsd only when a connections is made on port 1529 of the machine, and 
gnatsd exits immediately after the connection is dropped.


> Also while running the make test in the gnatsweb directory like
>
>  make test USERNAME=anonymous PASSWORD=guest DATABASE=main
>
> the output is like......
>
> perl test.pl
> Content-type: text/html
>
> <H1>Software error:</H1>
> <CODE>Can't call method &quot;header&quot; on an undefined value at
> gnatsweb.pl line 2199.
> </CODE>
> <P>
> For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this
> error message
> and the time and date of the error.
>
> [Wed Jul 11 19:12:51 2001] test.pl: Can't call method "header" on an
> undefined value at gnatsweb.pl line 2199.
> connect...........................................FAIL
> make: *** [test] Error 111
>
> So what could be the problem. Connection refused errno is returned.
> Means noboyd is listening in the port 1529 r what? I request
> you to help me to figure out the exact problem. Its really
> frustrating and i am in urgent need of help.

Download Gnatsweb 2.8.2 and read the INSTALL file carefully. Essentially, 
you need to create a gnats-db.conf file in the /etc directory.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer