Webinator

Post by **Thunderstone** » Thu May 02, 1996 2:02 pm

I have downloaded and tested your
Webinator product and I must say that I
am very impressed with it so far. I
have already send the purchase request
to my supervisor so we can purchase the
package.

I do have one problem though. When i
issue the command gw -e"1996-05-02
01:30:00" <proper url> i get EM "Got
signal 11 - quitting now." after a
while. What is signal 11 and why is GW
getting it? GW starts getting the
pages, but it suddenly stops with the
above EM.

Thank you for any help.

Erik Scheibert
Sr. Systems Engineer
Microdyne Corporation

Post by **Thunderstone** » Thu May 02, 1996 4:42 pm

signal 11 is a general crash.
You shouldn't name a URL when using -e . Leave it off and it should work.
We'll see about not letting it crash when you do use a URL with -e for the
next release.

Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri May 03, 1996 7:33 am

Webinator is NOT our product. We use it and we have some sort of
agreement with them for other products of theirs.

I am the webmaster for enterWorks.com and not knowledgeable about
Thunderstones products other than that we use it.

For technical support, please contact them through their web page at:
www.thunderstone.com

Sorry I couldn't help you.

BTW: How did you get my email?

-E.

On Thu, 2 May 1996, Erik Scheibert wrote:

Post by **Thunderstone** » Tue May 07, 1996 6:23 pm

Regarding:

Sorry, my problem. I subscribed to their listserv and apparently they send all
correspondence to them to people on the listserv. I didn't know that was the
way it worked. It seems to just forward your e-mail so I thought you were
writing to me.

Ken Churilla
Mentor Marketing Services Home Page
http://www.best.com/~mentorms
San Jose - The Capital of Silicon Valley Web Directory
http://www.best.com/~mentorms/sanjose.html
Eureka! Internet Search Engine
http://www.best.com/~mentorms/eureka.htm

Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Jun 14, 1996 2:17 pm

I'm not running it as webinator. I'm using a system() call in Perl,
which opens up a pipe, but gw is somehow failing to open the databases,
given the above message. Permissions shouldn't be a problem, I've been
messing with it all morning, and it was not working ok before, but it
wasn't giving me this error message. I've trying 'chmod -R 777 *' but
that doesn't aleviate the problem.

Any other suggestion(s)?

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Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Jun 14, 1996 5:54 pm

I don't mean it's not executable, but that it is running as the
wrong userid so it doesn't have permissions to access the database files.
The installation should have made webinator and gw both setuid
to the web server userid you specified.
Make sure both programs are owned by the same user (a user that has
permissions on the webinator database) via "chown USERID webinator gw".
Then reinstate the setuid bit via "chmod u+s webinator gw".

Post by **Thunderstone** » Fri Jun 14, 1996 8:04 pm

Is there a simple way to determin my "USERID" according to my bin look up
I think I know what it is.
Also:
I am using Webinator for Linux, I can not get it installed, I always get
permission denied from the get go.
I have tried a manual install (file by file).
My domain is located on a ISP server (Linux) and I do have my own cgi-bin
directory for CGI mail forms and such. Here is just on error trying to
index the sight:

cyberspy:~/pubwww/cgi-bin$ gw -fdoc -fhlp http://www.fladvyp.com
bash: ./gw: cannot execute binary file.

I have full access to my own area on the server........I am lost, and i
must admit I am no Linux (unix) expert. In fact in most case I have not a
clue. I can write basic CGI scripts ( non-perl) and godd html tags.
But in this area I am lost.

I do have to use Fetch to upload the files to the server.

Any help, anyone, anyone?

Thanks
Michael McBee

Michael McBee
megamike
URL=http://www.fladvyp.com/

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Post by **Thunderstone** » Mon Jun 17, 1996 9:27 am

The Webinator and the gw programs run set-uid to the USERID of the
webserver ( This prevents security problems ). To determine
the UID of the server, look at the ~httpd/conf/httpd.conf file.

Manual install will _not_ work. The install program patches the
binaries to set the PATH to the ~httpd/htdocs/webinator directory.

The system admin for your machine should be capable of helping you
to install it correctly.

Post by **Thunderstone** » Tue Oct 01, 1996 7:04 am

I resend this message because in these days there was some problems with the
e-mail.

I'm sorry for this.

Thank you.
Best regards.
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We installed your research software in our site and we read all the
documentation (very simple and clear). Now we would like to know some
technical and trading informations to use your product.

We created a research engine, like Yahoo , about the italian Web resource
based on the introduction of new link by users.

The research is effected in a databse MS-Access 7.0 trough Cold Fusion.

Now we would like to add to our system a full-text research with your software
indexing all sites with domain "it".

These are our questions:

-We can use WIN NT in a P166 dedicated or we must use UNIX?
- What kind of version of your software is right for us?
- Are sufficient 4 gb of hard disk to index 100 web sites?
- It's sufficient a P166 to have fast research with Webinator?

Thank you for all and sorry for the mistake.
Best Regards.
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webmaster@mbox.queen.it Management
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Post by **Thunderstone** » Wed Oct 02, 1996 2:27 am

RE: http://www.queen.it/iwp/indexit.htm

In order to create a Web index to all ".it" sites you will need
a Commercial Webinator (700 USD) or a T1000 Webinator. The machine
you currently have should work fine for your current requirements.
I would be more concerned about the load demands that MS-Access and
Cold Fusion place on your server.

To easily walk thousands of sites we recommend that you
consider upgrading to a more powerful Unix based platform.
This is because of database size, DNS requirements, and ease in
controlling the activities of 25-30 concurrent Webinator walkers.
( A Linux box with a P200 can support a million page index at
about 4-5 queries per second if it has enough RAM. )