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From: Michael <confabulate@××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] boa server won't start
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2022 11:23:39
Message-Id: 2624694.mvXUDI8C0e@lenovo.localdomain
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] boa server won't start by Michael
1 On Monday, 21 March 2022 16:17:04 GMT Michael wrote:
2 > I've moved my local portage distfiles server to a new installation, with no
3 > changes in the configuration. I expected www-servers/boa to start, but for
4 > reasons I fail to understand it won't do so:
5 >
6 > ~ # rc-service -v boa start
7 > * Caching service dependencies ... [ ok
8 > ] * Executing: /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh /lib/rc/sh/openrc-run.sh
9 > /etc/init.d/ boa start
10 > * Starting boa ...
11 > * start-stop-daemon: fopen `/run/boa.pid': No such file or directory
12 > * Detaching to start `/usr/sbin/boa' ...
13 > [21/Mar/2022:15:46:43 +0000] Before parse_debug, debug_level is: 0
14 > [21/Mar/2022:15:46:43 +0000] Enabling CGI Input debug level.
15 > [21/Mar/2022:15:46:43 +0000] After parse_debug, debug_level is: 4
16 > gethostbyname:: Success
17 > * start-stop-daemon: failed to start `/usr/sbin/boa'
18 > * Failed to start boa
19 > [ !! ]
20 > * ERROR: boa failed to start
21 >
22 >
23 > This is the content of my boa.conf:
24 >
25 > ~ # cat /etc/boa/boa.conf | grep ^[^#]
26 > Port 5024
27 > Listen 192.168.023
28 > User nobody
29 > Group nogroup
30 > ErrorLog /var/log/boa/error_log
31 > AccessLog /var/log/boa/access_log
32 > UseLocaltime
33 > DocumentRoot /var/cache/distfiles
34 > UserDir public_html
35 > DirectoryIndex index.html
36 > DirectoryMaker /usr/lib/boa/boa_indexer
37 > KeepAliveMax 1000
38 > KeepAliveTimeout 10
39 > MimeTypes /etc/boa/mime.types
40 > DefaultType text/plain
41 > Alias /doc /usr/share/doc
42 > Alias /icons /var/www/localhost/icons
43 > Alias /distfiles /var/cache/distfiles
44 > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/localhost/cgi-bin/
45 > PidFile /run/boa.pid
46 >
47 >
48 > The /var/cache/distfiles directory is readable by all:
49 >
50 > ~ # stat /var/cache/distfiles
51 > File: /var/cache/distfiles
52 > Size: 98304 Blocks: 200 IO Block: 4096 directory
53 > Device: 802h/2050d Inode: 854295 Links: 2
54 > Access: (0775/drwxrwxr-x) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 250/ portage)
55 > Access: 2022-03-21 11:31:07.571755000 +0000
56 > Modify: 2022-03-21 15:44:43.278010793 +0000
57 > Change: 2022-03-21 15:44:43.278010793 +0000
58 > Birth: 2022-03-18 19:24:56.282024446 +0000
59 >
60 > Can you see anything amiss in the above setup, to explain why the server
61 > does not start?
62
63 Gatling works, boa doesn't.

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Re: [gentoo-user] boa server won't start Julien Roy <julien@××××.ca>