[Melbourne-pm] Looking for a Perl consult... problem with sessions

[Rick Giner]

I came to the same conclusion, but Apache::Session doesn't appear in the 
codebase. Is it possible that other files could be being used outside 
the web root?

What do you think might require permissions? I have added the /sessions/ 
folder and given it ownership of www-data (same as Apache) and even 
tried permissions 777. Are there other folders I should be lookign at? 
Or particular users I should try executing processes as?

To my knowledge the OS hasn't been changed recently, but I don't think 
it was a well-maintained box. When I restarted it last week Apache 
complained about missing files from sites that had been decommissioned, 
but their definitions not removed from sites-enabled - so someone had 
been tinkering in there and not properly tidying up after themselves. No 
idea when the box was last restarted, but it's quite possible modules 
were uninstalled or changed months ago and no one would have noticed 
until the box was restarted last week



On 3/12/12 2:06 PM, Benjamin wrote:
>
> Appears to be using Apache::Session somewhere in there and sounds a 
> lot like permission issues.
>
> Have you recently moved the site to a new environment or upgraded the 
> host OS?
>
> Can you grep the Perl source for the application for "Apache::Session" 
> and grab the chunk of related code?
>
> Ben
>
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 1:59 PM, Rick Giner <rickginer at gmail.com 
> <mailto:rickginer at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     I wonder if anyone can help. This may only take a short time to
>     debug for someone in the know. More than happy to compensate for
>     any time spent on it...
>
>     It's been a long while since I have worked with Perl, I am in a
>     Ruby role right now but we have an old (12 year old) Perl website
>     that stopped working after the server rebooted. The shopping cart
>     did, anyway.
>
>     It seems to be trying to read session information relating to the
>     shopping cart, the error showing up in the log is a "Could not
>     open file '/var/lock/session/Apache-Session-blah.lock' for
>     writing: No such file or directory at
>     //usr/share/perl/5.8/CGI/Carp.pm line 314". The /session// folder
>     it refers to doesn't actually exist, though even after I created
>     it the error persists and no session files are being written.
>
>     If anyone has any time to help, we would greatly appreciate it and
>     can arrange for a console into the server and much beer + cash
>     prizes for anyone that helps solve our problem!
>
>     Many thanks,
>
>     Rick Giner
>     0416 500 924 <tel:0416%20500%20924>
>
>     _______________________________________________
>     Melbourne-pm mailing list
>     Melbourne-pm at pm.org <mailto:Melbourne-pm at pm.org>
>     http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/melbourne-pm
>
>

-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/melbourne-pm/attachments/20121203/12ebe532/attachment-0001.html>