[Samba] swat error

[bfinch at w9ya0.pointclark.net]

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> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004, John H Terpstra wrote:
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>> On Sat, 10 Jan 2004 bfinch at w9ya0.pointclark.net wrote:
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>> > I am getting the following error when trying to connect to
>> > http://localhost:901
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>> > 500 Server Error
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>> > chdir failed - the server is not configured correctly
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> My best guest is that the  --with-swatdir doesn't exist or
> has incorrect permissions.  ( the default is /usr/local/samba/swat ).
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Well I was hinting at the reason in my original post, (which is not fully
quoted here,) but suffice it to say;

1- It *IS* an improperly declared DATADIR issue in the code.

2- The devel team has now confirmed this bug in irc with me.

3- Until fixed this will at least affect users that declare --with-fhs in
their configures. For the time being if you declare --with-datadir= in
your configure cycle you *MUST* declare DATADIR= for BOTH the make and
make install cycles to avoid this problem.

4- And yes, I would/might not have seen this had I used the --with-swatdir
instead of the datadir. (swatdir may use datadir as part of the path.)

Many thanxs to everyone for their time and attention.

Very best regards;

Bob Finch


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