Re: wginstall hibernating - the solution

["Ian Crawford" <i.crawford@ecu.edu.au>]

No - it's weirder than that.

[1]  First off, the sub GuessHttpdConf  uses 'ps -a' to scan the
process environment for config file paths.  On Solaris, this is pretty
useless.  Developers take note !

[2]  When wginstall.pl falls into the if block that starts:
       # We can't find it in process list, try some common guesses
       if ($httpdconf eq '') {
for no reason that I can identify, the script hangs.  Best guess is
some OS / hardware problem in trying to access a
non-existent/offline/badly behaved device.

Easily worked around, once you pinpoint it.

Ian


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Ian Crawford
Manager, Flexible Learning Unit for Teaching and Education
Faculty of Communications, Health and Science
Ph (+61 8) 9370 6334  Fax (+61) 8 9370 6606
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>>> "Golda Velez" <golda@iwhome.com> 15/06/01 3:21:30 >>>
Hm - maybe a problem with the local ReadKey module?  If you make the
following change

diff -r1.34 wginstall.pl
45,48c45,48
< $have_readkey =
<       eval "require Term::ReadKey";
< }
<
---
> #$have_readkey =
> #     eval "require Term::ReadKey";
> #}
> $have_readkey = 0;

Do you still have the problem?

--G

> 
> 
> I've unpacked wg2.0 on a SunOS 5.8 box, but when I fire up wginstall
> and answer the first prompt:
> 
> Please enter Webglimpse home directory [/usr/local/wg2]:
> 
> It sleeps, presumably waiting for more keyboard input.
> 
> Any ideas ?
> 
> 
> ..................................................
> Ian Crawford
> Manager, Flexible Learning Unit for Teaching and Education
> Faculty of Communications, Health and Science
> Ph (+61 8) 9370 6334  Fax (+61) 8 9370 6606
> ..................................................
> 
>