From: "Kurt M. Dresner" <kdresner@...>
Date: 2003-09-01T07:33:36+09:00
Subject: Errors with a Ruby CGI script

Okay, so I got Ruby installed on that Solaris 8 machine and everything
seems okay.  As me I can do:

(05:30PM) [kdresner@sanjacinto /p/lib/ruby/1.8]$ irb
irb(main):001:0> require 'net/smtp'
=> true
irb(main):002:0>


However, in my CGI script, which is run as the user "www", this
operation results in a LoadError: more specifically: 

[Sun Aug 31 17:27:56 2003] [error] [client 66.25.137.71] Premature end
of script headers: gradechange.cgi
[Sun Aug 31 17:27:56 2003] [error] [client 66.25.137.71]
/p/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:325:in `require': No such file to load --
digest/md5 (LoadError)
[Sun Aug 31 17:27:56 2003] [error] [client 66.25.137.71]        from
/p/lib/ruby/1.8/net/smtp.rb:325
[Sun Aug 31 17:27:56 2003] [error] [client 66.25.137.71]        from
/var/spool/net/vhosts/cs_utexas_edu/www/users/kdresner/gradechange.cgi:8:in
`require'
[Sun Aug 31 17:27:56 2003] [error] [client 66.25.137.71]        from
/var/spool/net/vhosts/cs_utexas_edu/www/users/kdresner/gradechange.cgi:8


So it seems that smtp.rb is having a hard time loading digest/md5.
Here's the deal, digest/md5 is in the directory:

/p/lib/ruby/1.8/sparc-solaris2.8/digest/md5.so

Is there any reason that it would look in that directory as a normal
user, but not as the www user?

-Kurt