IRIX 6.5..can't find script or unable to stat

RT Users
1

Has anyone ever got RT to work on IRIX 6.5. Everything installs fine
and from the CLI it works fine but the
web interface will not let us log in. We get …

cannot find script or unable to stat …/admin-webrt.cgi

any help would be appreciated

Daniel E. Shipton

2

Ah ha! I think I’ve found a solution for people who want to build RT on
an IRIX 6.5 machine. The “can’t find script of unable to stat” message is
due to the setuid_wrapper’s array of safe environment variables not being
assembled properly. And when RT tries to use the variable SCRIPT_NAME
(which should = /rt/webrt.cgi) it finds the original /rt/webrt.cgi plus a
bunch of trash (bits of other stuff in other memory spaces poking
through). Most if not all of the other environment variables are polluted
as well, not just SCRIPT_NAME, but this is the one that causes the most
immediate problem.

Anyways - get to the point… alright.

  1. In your RT source tree find the source for suid_wrapper. The file is
    (relative to the main source directory) ‘etc/suidrt.c’

1b) Make a backup copy of it (I like: suidrt.c.orig)

  1. Open the file in your favourite editor, and find the line:

     strncpy(envString+strlen(candidate)+1,val,strlen(val));

and replace it with:

    strcpy(envString+strlen(candidate)+1,val);

  1. Recompile (gmake install)

  2. Test it thoroughly. I don’t profess to be a professional programmer,
    this may break something elsewhere… but so far it seems ok.

  3. Jesse can you investigate if this fix is ok ?

weirDOn Mon, 7 May 2001, Daniel Shipton wrote:

Has anyone ever got RT to work on IRIX 6.5. Everything installs fine
and from the CLI it works fine but the
web interface will not let us log in. We get …

cannot find script or unable to stat …/admin-webrt.cgi

any help would be appreciated

Daniel E. Shipton

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