[rancid] Re: RANCID and CVSWEB

Thu Sep 10 14:25:02 UTC 2009

I fixed this another way actually when I mentioned this to our Linux admin.  Rather than 775 the /usr/local/rancid directory, I put it back to 755 and added the apache user to the rancid group.  Worked like a charm.

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Heide [mailto:Todd at equivoice.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:15 AM
To: Chris Bell; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net; rwest at zyedge.com
Subject: RE: [rancid] RANCID and CVSWEB

I had tried everything others have suggested but for some reason that
was the only thing that worked with Fedora. Since the server is private
on my network, I am not too worried about the permissions, if it were
public, that would be a wholly different issue.

Thanks
Todd

Nothing ever goes as planned, Its a hell of a notion,
Even pharaohs turn to sand, Like a drop in the ocean

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bell [mailto:CBell at thig.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:14 AM
To: Todd Heide; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net; 'rwest at zyedge.com'
Subject: RE: [rancid] RANCID and CVSWEB

That did it ... curious though because the permissions on my Deb install
are drwxr-xr-x 9 for /home/rancid.

Thanks for everyone's help ... as always this is a fantastic group.  I
hope I'll be able to add something beneficial to it one day.

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Heide [mailto:Todd at equivoice.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 10:02 AM
To: Chris Bell; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: [rancid] RANCID and CVSWEB

Notice on mine the permissions are drwxrwxr-x, I had to add write
permissions for it to work.
Try adding write to it and see what happens.

Yours
usr/local/rancid/
drwxr-xr-x 9 rancid rancid  4096 Sep  9 15:46 var

Mine
drwxrwxr-x 10 Rancid netadm   4096 Jul 16 15:43 rancid

Thanks
Todd
Nothing ever goes as planned, Its a hell of a notion,
Even pharaohs turn to sand, Like a drop in the ocean

-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Bell [mailto:CBell at thig.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:37 AM
To: Todd Heide; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: [rancid] RANCID and CVSWEB

I keep thinking it's permissions too, but I don't see a problem with the
permissions:

/usr/local/rancid/
drwxr-xr-x 9 rancid rancid  4096 Sep  9 15:46 var

/usr/local/rancid/var/
drwxrwxr-x 7 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 15:46 CVS
drwxr-x--- 4 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 15:57 configs1
drwxr-x--- 4 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 16:05 configs2
drwxr-x--- 4 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 16:06 configs3
drwxr-x--- 4 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 16:07 configs4

[root at blah ~]# ls -l /usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/
total 24
drwxrwxr-x 3 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 16:07 CVSROOT
-rw-r----- 1 rancid rancid   58 Sep  9 15:46 Entries.Log
drwxrwxr-x 3 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 15:57 configs1
drwxrwxr-x 3 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 16:05 configs2
drwxrwxr-x 3 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 16:06 configs3
drwxrwxr-x 3 rancid rancid 4096 Sep  9 16:07 configs4

and on the /etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf

-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 22997 Sep 10 13:32 cvsweb.conf

-----Original Message-----
From: Todd Heide [mailto:Todd at equivoice.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 9:24 AM
To: Chris Bell; rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net
Subject: RE: [rancid] RANCID and CVSWEB

I have run into this same problem with Fedora Core. It turned out to be
the permissions in the directories where the CVS files are stored. They
need to be readable by Apache.

drwxrwxr-x 3 Rancid Rancid 4096 Sep 10 08:04 configs
drwxrwxr-x 10 Rancid netadm   4096 Jul 16 15:43 rancid

This was the only way I was able to get CVSweb to work with Rancid. I
think the default setting was

drwxrwx--- 10 Rancid netadm   4096 Jul 16 15:43 rancid

Thanks
Todd
Nothing ever goes as planned, Its a hell of a notion,
Even pharaohs turn to sand, Like a drop in the ocean

-----Original Message-----
From: rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net
[mailto:rancid-discuss-bounces at shrubbery.net] On Behalf Of Chris Bell
Sent: Thursday, September 10, 2009 8:17 AM
To: 'rancid-discuss at shrubbery.net'
Subject: [rancid] RANCID and CVSWEB

I spent the better part of yesterday, last night, and this morning
trying to figure out how to get cvsweb to work with RANCID.  I'm running
Redhat 5.x and have Rancid installed to the default directory path
/usr/local/rancid.  For cvsweb, I am using 3.0.6-4.  In my cvsweb.conf
(/etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf) I have this config:

@CVSrepositories = (
       'local'   => ['Local Repository', '/var/cvs'],
        'rancid'  => ['rancid', '/usr/local/rancid/var/CVS/']
#       'freebsd' => ['FreeBSD',          '/var/ncvs'],
#       'openbsd' => ['OpenBSD',          '/var/ncvs'],
#       'netbsd'  => ['NetBSD',           '/var/ncvs'],
#       'ruby'    => ['Ruby',             '/var/anoncvs/ruby'],

That path, points to the CVSROOT for Rancid.  When I browse to
...http://server/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/, the local repo is available, but
there is no drop down box to go to the 'rancid' repo.  If I comment out
the local repo in the cvsweb.conf, I get this error when trying to
browse to the same url:

Error: No valid CVS roots found! See @CVSrepositories in the
configuration file (/etc/cvsweb/cvsweb.conf)

This leads me to believe that there is not a permission issue on the
.conf file, because if there was - changing by commenting out a repo
would not make a difference.

Any idea on what I'm doing wrong?  Sorry if this has been covered, but I
honestly couldn't find it anyplace that offered a solution.  Several
discussions about it on the cvsweb list, but nothing that offered a
solution.  This worked like a charm and out of the box with Ubuntu when
I did it a couple of years ago -- but unfortunately I'm not able to
build this box on Ubuntu, has to be Redhat.

Christopher Bell, CCNA
Network Operations Manager
Tower Hill Insurance Group, Inc.
352-332-8800, ext 1734

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