Swat2

[Jelmer Vernooij]

On Thu, 2012-11-22 at 19:45 +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> On 22/11/12 14:53, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 12:04:34PM +0000, Rowland Penny wrote:
> >>   we seem to have an interesting problem here, Andrew Bartlett has
> >> created a Samba bug report: Bug 9415 - SWAT *.msg files not
> >> installed with waf
> >> This by itself is not a problem, but it is also listed as a blocker
> >> on Bug 8622 - Samba 4.0 can't be released
> >>
> >> So what is the problem? the problem is that Samba 4 cannot be
> >> released until bug 9415 is sorted out, but why bother because Swat
> >> itself is so broken and out of date it cannot be installed. It relys
> >> on pylons, but pylons seem to have been replaced by pyramids.
> >>
> >> So Andrew you want a cure for bug 9415, easy, just remove Swat until
> >> it is sorted out and works.
> >>
> >> Before anybody starts shouting, I have tried to follow the
> >> instructions at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SWAT2
> >> None of the instructions there seem to work on Ubuntu 12.04 server
> >> and the page was last modified on 7 September 2011. I have also
> >> tried searching the web for newer instructions but cannot find any
> >> at this time.
> >>
> >> If anybody knows how to get Swat working, could they please post a
> >> howto somewhere.
> > I've updated the HOWTO at https://wiki.samba.org/index.php/SWAT2.
> >
> > You'll also need the patches I recently posted to the mailing list for
> > the web service.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Jelmer
> >
> >
> Hi Jelmer,
> I have applied your patches and compiled samba 4 again, carried out the 
> instructions on the swat2 howto page and got swat2 running (I think) ;-)
> 
> netstat -a | grep LISTEN | grep -v unix
> tcp        0      0 *:swat                  *:* LISTEN
> 
> lsof -i :901
> COMMAND   PID USER   FD   TYPE DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> samba   31644 root   22u  IPv4 433197      0t0  TCP *:swat (LISTEN)
> samba   31644 root   23u  IPv6 433198      0t0  TCP *:swat (LISTEN)
> 
> But when I try to connect to swat (via the servers ipaddress) from 
> another computer, I get this in /usr/local/samba/var/log.samba
> 
> [2012/11/22 19:34:40,  0] 
> ../source4/web_server/wsgi.c:420(wsgi_process_http_input)
>    error while running WSGI code
> 
> I also now have an empty /usr/local/samba/var/log.swat
> 
> Any idea what is wrong?
I suspect there is a dependency of SWAT2 that you haven't installed yet.
Of course, Samba also should be providing you with a more reasonable
error message than that. 

Cheers,

Jelmer