[AG-TECH] Problems with Access Grid 3.0.2

[Nico]

Hi Chris!

Thanks for answering! When I start from the script in init.d and I 
connect a client and I can see all Venues, but I can't enter in any of 
them because I obtain the error messages I mentioned in the first mail.

In the script I have a line different than you to execute VenueServer, 
but I've specified the "ag" user:

 daemonAG --user ag VenueServer -c 
/home/ag/venue_server3/VenueServer.cfg -p 9000

Maybe our scripts are different. I used the syntax from this forum:  
http://www-unix.mcs.anl.gov/web-mail-archive/lists/ag-tech/2006/02/msg00023.html 


VenueServer for version 2.4 runs ok with the same syntax.

Thanks again for your help! See you soon!

                      Nico.

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