RE: {bb} History lesson

["Boyd, Stephen W Mr US Army Strategic and Advanced Computing Center" <Stephen.Boyd@hqda.army.mil>]

Er. Just reread my note. When I say "bounce the webserver" in Second fix, I
mean the httpd daemon, not the machine, which is rather what causes the
problem in the 1st place.

-- Steve

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Boyd, Stephen W Mr US Army Strategic and Advanced 
> Computing Center
> [mailto:Stephen.Boyd@hqda.army.mil]
> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 2:20 PM
> To: 'bb@bb4.com'
> Subject: RE: {bb} History lesson
> 
> 
> This happens to us too.
> 
> First Fix: Somewhere on the webserver, there is a file that 
> contains all the
> MIME type specifications. This will have things like 
> mime_add	"appliaction/x-sh" "sh"        
> in it. On Solaris, running the Sun WebServer, it's 
> /etc/http/httpd.conf .
> 
> Second Fix: Even with this modified, on my machine, at least, 
> this error
> pops up after a reboot. What we do in that case is bounce the 
> webserver
> (John usually does it through the HotJava interface console 
> but I have a
> sneaking suspicion that a kill -HUP should work nicely too) 
> and everything
> is shiny happy again. 
> 
> Hope this helps. 
> -- Steve
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: douglas.trainor@pharma.Novartis.com
> > [mailto:douglas.trainor@pharma.Novartis.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, September 02, 1999 10:39 AM
> > To: bb@taex001.tamu.edu
> > Cc: william.fitzsimons@pharma.Novartis.com;
> > david.barnett@pharma.Novartis.com
> > Subject: {bb} History lesson
> > 
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > PLAYERS-   BB(V 1.2b) on AIX using Netscape browser, and 
> > IBM's Internet Web
> > Server using Frontpage.
> > 
> > GAME-          Using Netscape on my PC using BB's History 
> > button, bb-hist.sh may
> > not be executing. I am prompted
> >             to "Open or download" bb-hist.sh. The mime 
> > AddType directives for
> > .sh files on Webserver is correct.
> > 
> > OUTCOME-   It does the same if I use Netscape from my PC or 
> > Netscape on the AIX
> > box. Both are setup to
> >               use application/x-sh with .sh extension (ie.
> > /usr/lpp/internet/server_root/cgi-bin/bb-hist.sh).
> > 
> > So...           Does the bb-hist.sh script execute another 
> > script, or is it
> > supposed to display the contents of
> >              /bigbro/www/hist/hostname.cpu file on my browser?
> > 
> > Tell me if I am looking in the right place(s) to get history 
> > functioning.
> > 
> > Douglas Trainor
> > (973)781-7413
> > 
> > 
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