Re: wotaskd trouble on panther

After trying a variety of different permissions and start scripts, 
we eventually gave up and rebuilt this box from scratch. It now runs 
fine.

We never figured out the source of the trouble, and haven't been 
able to duplicate it on other machines. Perhaps we botched the 
original install? Dunno, but that's the most plausible explanation 
so far.

Thanks, as always, to all those who offered suggestions.

zak.


Zak Burke wrote on 11/12/04 3:45 PM:
> I recently installed Panther Server 10.3.5 on a G4 XServe. I can't
> get wotaskd to run. WebObjects runs fine on my 10.2 server and 10.3
> client installations. The omnigroups search engine seems to ignore
> number parameters (grrr...) so it has been hard to find information
> specific to 10.3 or port 1085.
> 
> I have tried using the startup script provided by Apple and the one
> from the Applications Server Update 2.0 notes
> (http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=107909). I've tried
> re-owning files to root (and appserver, and appserverusr...), but
> permissions don't seem to be the problem. Monitor comes up just
> fine, but when I try to add my host I get a big red "Failed to
> contact <hostname>-1085" message. I get this message if I enter the
> hostname, its IP, localhost or 127.0.0.1.
> 
> Trying to access http://localhost:1085 directly returns nothing.
> 
> I've tried directly starting
> /System/Library/WebObjects/JavaApplications/wotaskd.woa/wotaskd as
> root but that doesn't make a difference. Changing the port does not
> help either. wotaskd starts and tells me it's waiting for requests,
> but visiting http://<hostname>/cgi-bin/WebObjects/wotaskd.woa/-1085
> just tells me "The requested application was not found on this server."
> 
> WebObjects appears to be attached to this port:
> 
> $ sudo lsof -i :1085
> COMMAND  PID USER   FD   TYPE     DEVICE SIZE/OFF NODE NAME
> java    3246 root    5u  IPv6 0x02e76880      0t0  TCP *:webobjects
> java    3246 root    7u  IPv6 0x02a86ee0      0t0  UDP *:webobjects
> 
> but not responding to requests on it -- shouldn't it read "...TCP
> *:webobjects (LISTEN)"? Note the "localhost:1085 didn't respond" in
> the log from /tmp/WebObjects.log below, even though it thinks
> initialization succeeds:
> 
> Info: ac_init(): reading configuration from: http://localhost:1085
> Info: Caching hostent for localhost
> Info: Added new config server localhost:1085.
> Debug: init_adaptor(): ac_init succeeded
> Debug: init_adaptor(): transaction_init() succeeded
> Info: Reading configuration from
> http://localhost:1085/WebObjects/wotaskd.woa/wa/woconfig
> Info: attempting to connect to localhost on port 1085
> Info: Preparing to read config for host: localhost
> Debug: nonBlockingRecv(): recv() returned 0 (connection closed)
> Info: Config server localhost:1085 didn't respond.
> Info: WebObjects_init(): WebObjects adaptor initialization succeeded.
> 
> If anybody has had similar experiences, or has some guidance, I'd be
> grateful.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> zak.
>