gitweb not seeing repository because it can't see the HEAD file? - perl

I'm trying to get gitweb setup on a CentOS 6.2 server with git/gitweb 1.7.1 and httpd 2.2.15 installed.
gitweb's default project root (verified in the CGI script) is /var/lib/git, so I've created that and a bare git repository in there:
$ ls -laF /var/lib/git
total 12
drwxrwxr-x. 3 git git 4096 Feb 8 16:37 ./
drwxr-xr-x. 15 root root 4096 Feb 8 14:20 ../
drwxrwxr-x. 7 git git 4096 Feb 8 15:37 foo/
$ git init --bare --shared foo
Initialized empty shared Git repository in /var/lib/git/foo/
$ ls -lF foo
total 32
drwxrwsr-x. 2 git git 4096 Feb 8 17:16 branches/
-rw-rw-r--. 1 git git 126 Feb 8 17:16 config
-rw-rw-r--. 1 git git 73 Feb 8 17:16 description
-rw-rw-r--. 1 git git 23 Feb 8 17:16 HEAD
drwxrwsr-x. 2 git git 4096 Feb 8 17:16 hooks/
drwxrwsr-x. 2 git git 4096 Feb 8 17:16 info/
drwxrwsr-x. 4 git git 4096 Feb 8 17:16 objects/
drwxrwsr-x. 4 git git 4096 Feb 8 17:16 refs/
$ cat foo/HEAD
ref: refs/heads/master
However on viewing http://localhost/git/, I see "404 No projects found".
I've debugged through the script and can see that it's finding /var/lib/git/foo, but Perl's -e operator fails on /var/lib/git/foo/HEAD. At the same place in the file, a backticked call to ls shows that the file is visible there, but I cannot make Perl -e see the file.
Any idea what might be making this fail? This makes no sense to me.
EDIT: note that SELinux extensions on this CentOS box appear to be disabled:
$ sudo sestatus
SELinux status: disabled
EDIT: moving everything from /var/lib/git to /git hasn't helped. I've changed the apache user to have a real shell, logged in as that user, and verified that it has access to all the directories and files in question.

It was in fact SELinux. Even though SELinux reported it was disabled, it was somehow preventing access to some files for CGI scripts running under httpd. Enabling SELinux and setting it to permissive mode, it started working.
This seems highly non-intuitive and frustrates me, but at least it's working.

I'm still thinking it's an issue with permissions... but I could be wrong. Have you ensured that all of the parent directories leading up to your /var/lib/git directory are permission-accessible?
Someone else had a similar problem here and it might be worth trying a completely different directory... maybe even /opt.

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HowTo: Completely Uninstall Postgresql14 from MacOs Catalina If I've used the EnterpriseDB.com GUI installer

I've been trying to get this to work by following the answers in these questions:
How to uninstall postgresql on my Mac (running Snow Leopard)
Completely uninstall PostgreSQL 9.0.4 from Mac OSX Lion?
...but they're not working. So, here's what I have tried instead/in addition...
.
me#myMac:~$ cd /Library/PostgreSQL/14
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14$ ./uninstall-postgresql.app/
-bash: ./uninstall-postgresql.app/: is a directory
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14$ open ./uninstall-postgresql.app/
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app.
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14$ open -a ./uninstall-postgresql.app/
Unable to find application named './uninstall-postgresql.app/'
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14$ open -a uninstall-postgresql.app/
Unable to find application named 'uninstall-postgresql.app/'
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14$ sudo open uninstall-postgresql.app/
Password:
LSOpenURLsWithRole() failed with error -10810 for the file /Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app.
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14$ cd /Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS/
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS$ install
install install_name_tool installvst
install-info installer
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS$ installer
Usage: installer [-help] [-dominfo] [-volinfo] [-pkginfo] [-allowUntrusted] [-dumplog]
[-verbose | -verboseR] [-vers] [-config] [-plist]
[-file <pathToFile>] [-lang <ISOLanguageCode>] [-listiso]
[-showChoicesXML] [-applyChoiceChangesXML <pathToFile>]
[-showChoicesAfterApplyingChangesXML <pathtoFile>]
-pkg <pathToPackage>
-target <[DomainKey|MountPoint]>
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS$ installbuilder.sh
-bash: installbuilder.sh: command not found
SINCE I couldn't run/find installbuilder.sh using the following command...
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS$ installbuilder.sh
-bash: installbuilder.sh: command not found
...as the other answers in my OP suggest, I went on to try the steps below:
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS$ ls -la
total 3112
drwxr-xr-x 5 root daemon 160 Sep 23 10:48 ./
drwxr-xr-x 5 root daemon 160 Sep 23 09:18 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 673 Sep 23 10:48 installbuilder.sh*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 1449456 Sep 23 10:07 osx-x86_64*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root daemon 135216 Jul 14 11:21 uninstall-postgresql*
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS$ ./installbuilder.sh
Unable to initialize installer
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS$ ./uninstall-postgresql
Usage: ./uninstall-postgresql installerName [args ...]
me#myMac:/Library/PostgreSQL/14/uninstall-postgresql.app/Contents/MacOS$ ./uninstall-postgresql osx-x86_64
and VOILA!!!
This launched the uninstall GUI
Choose UNINSTALL ALL / REMOVE ENTIRE INSTALLATION
The uninstaller will do its thing and then prompt you with this:
At this point you'll want to follow the steps provided in this PREVIOUS StackOverflow ANSWER - steps 3 through 6 of #user1181328's answer. I'll list them here for convenience:
Remove the PostgreSQL and data folders. The Wizard will notify you that these were not removed.
sudo rm -rf /Library/PostgreSQL
Remove the ini file:
sudo rm /etc/postgres-reg.ini
Remove the PostgreSQL user:
using System Preferences -> Users & Groups.
Unlock the settings panel by clicking on the padlock and entering your password.
Select the PostgreSQL user and click on the minus button.
Restore your shared memory settings:
sudo rm /etc/sysctl.conf
That should be all! The uninstall wizard would have removed all icons and start-up applications files so you don't have to worry about those.

Git hook command has seriously messed with my directory listings

Got this line of code in .git/hooks/post-checkout:
exec vim +PackerCompile +"sleep 100m" +qall
The vim command ran fine from the command line. But apparently, not so well in sh.
When I switch to a branch, I get a very messy output:
Switched to branch 'clean'
Your branch is up to date with 'origin/clean'.
Vim: Warning: Input is not from a terminal
Even worse, my directory listings are all screwy:
> $ ls -la [±clean ✓]
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 6 user staff 192 Feb 26 20:59 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 user staff 160 Feb 26 16:39 ..
drwxr-xr-x 3 user staff 96 Feb 26 16:55 .compiled_packer_config
drwxr-xr-x 5 user staff 160 Feb 26 20:59 lua
drwxr-xr-x 19 user staff 608 Feb 20 16:56 templates
-rw-r--r-- 1 user staff 279 Feb 26 20:59 init.lua
It looks like I've got some whitespace characters in there. These whitespace characters are showing up in all directories in this terminal. In other terminals, things display normally. But WTF happened? And how do I fix?
OK, I stuck with what I'm more familiar with and used bash. Works just fine:
#!/bin/zsh
#exec git update-server-info
bash -c '/usr/local/bin/nvim +PackerCompile +"sleep 100m" +qall'

Why wget does not download included videos?

I use wget to download an entire website with all included assets, the problem is that wget does not download included videos.
For example with this website, if I execute the following command :
wget -q -r ‐‐page-requisites http://videohtml5.byethost11.com/index.html
It download almost everything but if you open the web page, you'll see that the video is not downloaded.
I have tried the following options without results:
-r : for recursion
--page-requisites : to download all included assets
However if I directly put the link to the video as an option of wget it works :
wget -q -r ‐‐page-requisites http://videohtml5.byethost11.com/movie.mp4
But I would like to download everything in one command. I have read the wget manual but I didn't see any other option that could do that. That's why I am asking your help.
EDIT : I change the url to really match my need
SOLUTION : Because I am using Windows, I didn't get the latest released which has the fix for the bug. Do not download wget from http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/wget.htm, but use https://eternallybored.org/misc/wget/ instead.
The video is hosted at a different domain: you need the -H parameter.
See the manpage section about spanning hosts: https://www.gnu.org/software/wget/manual/wget.html#Spanning-Hosts
== Update ==
It seems wget has a bug preventing to download the <source> of the <video> tag. See https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-wget/2013-06/msg00070.html
This works as you expect:
wget -H -r --level=1 -k -p http://camendesign.com/code/video_for_everybody/
...
drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 Apr 17 10:08 camendesign.com
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 10:08 clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 10:08 forum.camendesign.com
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 13700 May 12 2013 test.html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 17 10:08 www.youtube.com
root#test /tmp/test# cd clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de/
root#test /tmp/test/clips.vorwaerts-gmbh.de# ll
total 5396
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 5510872 Feb 9 2010 big_buck_bunny.mp4

custom yum repo not showing rpm

I have a yum repository I've set up where I store custom rpms.
I have no problem finding information about other packages that were built and stored in this custom repo.
#yum --disablerepo=rhui-us-east-rhel-server-1y,epel,epel-testing --enablerepo=customrepo install php53-pecl-xdebug
php53-pecl-xdebug x86_64 2.2.1-2 customrepo 132 k
No problem.
Now I drop somerpm.rpm in centos/repo/5/noarch, run createrepo --update . in this directory and try the same command, and yet it shows no results.
I tried running createrepo --update in the root of the repo as well, but that did not work either (I'm actually not sure where to run it and if it needs a repodata directory in each subdir).
[root#reposerver mnt]# ls -l /var/www/repo/
total 12
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 203 Jun 8 00:13 REPO_README
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Jun 10 2011 centos
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 18 20:02 repodata
[root#reposerver mnt]# ls -l /var/www/repo/centos/5/
SRPMS/ i386/ noarch/ repodata/ x86_64/
[root#reposerver mnt]# ls -l /var/www/repo/centos/5/noarch/
total 7324
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1622 Jun 28 2011 compat-php-5.1.6-1.noarch.rpm
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Oct 18 19:55 repodata
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1066928 Oct 18 19:54 salt-0.10.3-1.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 6363197 Oct 18 19:54 salt-0.10.3-1.src.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 21822 Oct 18 19:54 salt-master-0.10.3-1.noarch.rpm
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 14294 Oct 18 19:54 salt-minion-0.10.3-1.noarch.rpm
I also tried adding the exactarch=0 flag to my repo config to ignore arch restrictions and this did not work either, it was a shot in the dark, since my rpm is noarch, it should show regardless.
# cat /etc/yum.repos.d/mycompany.repo
[mycompany]
name=mycompany custom repo
baseurl=http://config/repo/centos/5/$basearch
enabled=1
exactarch=0
I'm at a loss at this point. Usually createrepo --update does the trick, but for some reason it cannot find the new rpms.
repo]# find . -type f -name "*.gz" | xargs zcat | grep salt-minion
returns results as well, so it's definitely in the repo data.
yum clean all on the server I was trying to install on worked.
Also make sure to do createrepo --update on the specific subdir instead of the root of the repo.

Install mongodb php driver on mediatemple dv 4.0

By following the official instructions http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Quickstart+Unix and this post http://blog.phy5ics.com/2010/03/27/installing-mongodb-on-mediatemple-dv/ I've just about managed to get mongodb installed on MediaTemples DV 4.0 server (I think).
I am however having problems installing the PHP driver http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/PHP+Language+Center
In SSH I get this:
[root#xxx]# cd /var/tmp
[root#xxx]# pecl install mongo
downloading mongo-1.1.4.tgz ...
Starting to download mongo-1.1.4.tgz (68,924 bytes)
.................done: 68,924 bytes
18 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version: 20090626
Zend Module Api No: 20090626
Zend Extension Api No: 220090626
/usr/bin/phpize: /var/tmp/mongo/build/shtool: /bin/sh: bad interpreter: Permission denied
Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script.
ERROR: `phpize' failed
I am logged in as the root user - I don't understand why it's failing and what steps I need to take to install the PHP driver?
Thanks
Run the following commands on your server's command line:
$ mkdir /root/tmp
$ mount --bind /root/tmp /tmp
$ umount /tmp; umount /var/tmp
$ pecl install mongo
A few things:
/root/tmp is just an arbitrary temp directory. You can use whatever you want, provided it exists.
Some instructions say to use --host instead of --bind. On RHEL/CentOS mount says --host is an unrecognized option.
If you're on a VM, it's likely that you'll have to do this each time you restart your VM/Container.
For Media Temple customers, I can confirm that this works on both (dv) and (ve) servers with CentOS 5 and 6.
From media temple support: Need to create a temporary directory (/root/tmpz):
$ mkdir /root/tmpz
$ mount --host /root/tmpz /tmp
$ umount /tmp; umount /var/tmp
$ pecl install mongo
Build complete.
Don't forget to run 'make test'.
running: make INSTALL_ROOT="/var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4" install
Installing shared extensions: /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64/php /modules/
running: find "/var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4" | xargs ls -dils
69094140 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4
69275176 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr
69275177 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64
69290445 4 drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64/php
69290447 4 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64/php/modules
69290448 676 -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 684126 Feb 22 13:40 /var/tmp/pear-build-root/install-mongo-1.1.4/usr/lib64/php/modules/mongo.so
Build process completed successfully
Installing '/usr/lib64/php/modules/mongo.so'
install ok: channel://pecl.php.net/mongo-1.1.4
configuration option "php_ini" is not set to php.ini location
You should add "extension=mongo.so" to php.ini
Do you have php-dev installed? phpize is basically "compiling" the MongoDB driver, but unless you have the -dev installed, this may not work.