[AG-TECH] Problems with Access Grid 3.0.2

[Christoph Willing]

On 17/10/2007, at 9:53 PM, Nico wrote:

> Hi!
>
> In our company we have an AG Server on a Linux Fedora Core 4  
> machine with Access Grid 3.0.2 installed. We have several Venues  
> configured. During these days I've been configuring start scripts  
> on the /etc/init.d folder to automatically run Venue Server at the  
> start of the system. So the proccess VenueServer is ok when I  
> reboot the machine, but when I connect a client I can connect to  
> https://server:9000/Venues/default but I can't enter in any  
> configured Venue on the server, I try it, but I receive the  
> following error message: "Error entering venue".
>
> So the quick solution is start Venue Server again manually, then I  
> can enter in any Venue.
>
> Could somebody tell me what can happen?


Nico,

Are the additional venues you've created actually visible to the  
client when the server is started from the init.d script?

If not, then my guess is that whenever the server is started from the  
script in init.d directory, it is being run by the root user instead  
of the ordinary user who created the additional venue structure. In  
that case the server starts in the wrong directory and doesn't find  
the VenueServer.dat file that contains your venue structure (which  
was created when you ran the server as an ordinary user).

Your init.d script should explicitly cd to the directory containing  
the correct VenueServer.dat file. It should also su to an ordinary  
user account to actually run the venue server.

Here is the crucial line in our startup script which starts the  
server. You can see the cd to the directory which contains the  
VenueServer.dat file and if that succeeds it runs VenueServer3.py as  
the user 'ag' (not root).

     cd /var/lib/ag/server_HALL && su ag -c /usr/bin/VenueServer3.py &

Since you run Fedora, I think your executable will be just  
'VenueServer' (rather than 'VenueServer3.py')



chris


Christoph Willing                       +61 7 3365 8350
QCIF Access Grid Manager
University of Queensland