[PLUG] 'about.config' in Firefox

Derek Loree drl at drloree.com
Wed Aug 4 10:28:02 UTC 2004


On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 07:24, Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Aug 2004, Russ Johnson wrote:
> 
> > Is there a process with that pid?
> 
> Russ,
> 
>   No, there is not.
> 
> > Is the binary called thttpd? (grasping...)
> 
>   Yes.
> 
> > Yup, that's the problem with using .pid files. The startup script
> > "succeeds", starts the process, and writes the .pid file, then the process
> > dies.
> 
>   A reply to my message on the thttpd mail list suggested that I invokd the
> daemon directly (/usr/sbin/thttpd) rather than through the init scripts.
> Well, ... that works! Process 7099 is now happily sitting there, suspended,
> with the fully-qualified path shown in the list. Of course,
> /var/run/thttpd.pid has the wrong value, but I've no idea what that file
> does in the grand scheme of things anyway.
> 
> > That sounds like your process is running, or something else is answering
> > on port 8000.
> >
> > Can you telnet to port 8000? Do you get any response when you do? Press
> > enter a few times...
> 
>   Yes, I can. Here:
> 
> [rshepard at salmo ~]$ telnet localhost 8000
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> Connected to localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1).
> Escape character is '^]'.
> 
> HTTP/1.0 400 Invalid header received from browser
> 
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> 
> The last two lines occurred after I pressed [Enter].
> 
> > When you think the process has died, does the netstat command still show
> > something listening on port 8000?
> 
>   Yes.
> 
> > If so, do you have any proxies running?
> 
>   Squid.
> 
>   Just now, with the process running I tried (from within firefox)
> 'http://localhost:8000/sql-ledger/admin.pl' and I get a blank page with
> 'done' in the status bar.

Is thttpd capable of running perl scripts and accessing a postgresql
database?  Are these features turned on?

Just wondering.

Derek Loree





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