Hi Ed,
> Currently the server will not continue if it can't write to the log file,
> that is the only file it actually needs to write to.
> ...
>> The reason that you get this cryptic message is that the server has already
> exitted so there is nothing for the client to connect to.
Could the server send a message to the client about why it's exiting?
> If you would like to be able to start the server in a truly "read only" way I
> can do that easily, I think it should be a configuration file parameter
> though so that administrators have to choose it.
Looks like there already is a READONLY_DATABASE parameter in
serverconfig.wrm, which seems to claim it does what we want. But it
doesn't seem to be working. At least I still can't connect to the
server if it's running as user 'nobody' who doesn't have write permission
in the database directory. The message is
FATAL ERROR - (matthews on ceres.plbr.cornell.edu) reported by program
saceclient (ACEDB 4_9c), in file sclientlib.c, at line 208: Error in reading
from socket, closing down connection.
- Dave
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