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I just installed webinator on a solaris 2.5.1 sparc box, and find that:

- I could run the gw program once (but it didn't manage to get more than 1
page) but when I run it again it hangs at "Adding todo:..." This may be a
function of whether someone is currently searching the database or not...
but I'm not sure.
- If I ever run the gw program as some user other than my webserver user
(nobody), even if I chmod everything back to nobody, the search interface
can't open the database.

How do I fix these, and is there more complete documentation available anywhere?

Thanks!
RL

You probably have a semaphore ownership problem from switching between
userids. You can fix that up by removing the SYSLOCKS file in the database
directory.

Then you need to stop accessing the database as different users. Always use
the same userid to access the database. If you can't do maintenance as
the web server user you need to make sure the search cgi program, texis, runs
as the user you do maintenance as. You can do this by making it setuid:

chmod u+s texis


Webinator admin docs can be found at:
http://www.thunderstone.com/webinator/

Links to general Texis and Vortex documentation can be found at:
http://www.thunderstone.com/webinator/example/