20-Jul-2005

Webserver update
Yesterday, a number of upgrades to be installed on Diana have been downloaded: SWS (Apache) 1.3-1, Tomcat 2.1, the MOD_PHP module and Java 1.4.2-p2.
Tonight, SWS has been updated, but that didn't go in a wink. Actually, the upgrade wasn't the problem, that went smooth as usual, TOMCAT came up like always, but the webserver failed to start. Via apache$$server.log it was found that files did have the wrong protection (yes, quite obviously if installed under the SYSTEM account), they were owned by SYSTEM and just owner and group had access; no access therefore, for APACHE$WWW, and so the server didn't start. Changing ownership didn't work either since some files were found to be not accessable (File access conflict) even when both SWS as TOMCAT were stopped. In the end it turned out that SYS$STARTUP:APACHE$CONFIG had to be executed to get things right - and that was not in the release notes. At least, it was not noticed.
Not that it helped a lot, now startup complained about someting in MOD_SSL. Well, disabled that for the moment, it isn't used at the moment anyway. After that, both Tomcat and Apache started as smooth as always (though time-consuming), so on the edge of available time it was up and running again.
See if we can do PHP tomorrow (installing Pivot CMS, perhaps?), or some time next wek(end), and get SSL to work.

Athene's performance is getting worse and worse, for no appearant reason it will freeze for a while. Again a motherboard issue? It's the second new board in a few weeks, and nothing has changed in the mean time. Or could it be a matter of the BELKIN wireless card software? Not neccessarily, since freezing happens without network as well. But some Belkin related service does exist and may trigger problems.
In a much lesser extent the same problem occurs on Aphrodite, but that might be a problem with WindowsXP, or applications, that cann ot handle the latest HT Pentium4 in there. Cannot be a Belkin problem since the software is not installed there.
To be investigated...

(Updated 26-Jul-2005, 14:15)