From: Carl Youngblood <carl@...>
Date: 2003-10-01T02:38:49+09:00
Subject: Re: fastcgi permission error

> so, when any program runs that requires 'fcgi.so', it, in turn, will cause the
> linker to look for all the other libs it needs.  sometimes the paths will be
> incomplete and the linker will need to look for the others in LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> or /etc/ld.so.conf.  it can happen (it has to me)  that a module _you_ require
> works completely find because the directory of the libs _it_ depends on are in
> your LD_LIBRARY_PATH and ld.so can find them.  however, when you are running a
> cgi it is user nobody that is running the script and his LD_LIBRARY_PATH may
> not have a path where the depending lib can be found.  i think i saw this with
> the postgres module before... any how, you can fix it by configuring ld.so
> (/etc/ld.so.conf) _or_ by compiling with LD_RUN_PATH set, which hard codes the
> paths into the shared module.  or by setting the global LD_LIBRARY_PATH but i
> forget how to do that.

Okay, so I updated /etc/ls.so.conf and even figured out that I needed to 
run /sbin/ldconfig in order to update my changes.  I also restarted the 
httpd daemon just to make sure that it got those changes as well. 
However, I'm still seeing the problem:

> [Tue Sep 30 11:26:21 2003] [crit] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: can't create (dynamic) server "/var/www/cgi-bin/test.fcgi": bind() failed [/etc/httpd/logs/fastcgi/dynamic/35830e69d0669b031643022d74f2d729]
> [Tue Sep 30 11:26:26 2003] [alert] [client 127.0.0.1] (13)Permission denied: FastCGI: failed to connect to (dynamic) server "/var/www/cgi-bin/test.fcgi": something is seriously wrong, any chance the socket/named_pipe directory was removed?, see the FastCgiIpcDir directive

It may be, as you said, that the web server user (apparently redhat sets 
  up a user called apache for the web server to run as) can't see the 
same library path that I can.  However, I can't check since when run:

sudo su apache -c '/var/www/cgi-bin/test.fcgi < /dev/null'

It says "This account currently is not available."  What's more, even 
though my user could not see /usr/local/lib in its library path, it was 
able to run the fcgi script from the command line, since ruby-fcgi seems 
to bypass fcgi.so when it is running from the command line.

So, I think I am closer but there is still a problem.

Thanks,
Carl