[mapserver-users] mapserver.log (was Re: malformed PNGs)

[Puneet Kishor]

slowly slowly we progress...

I am finally able to get mapserver.log to generate. I added the $ENV 
line immediately after the shebang line, and chown-ed the tmp directory 
to nobody. Works!

ok. so I am now watching the log file with

	tail -f ...

and I see the following...

	Tue Aug 13 23:10:51 2002 - msSearchDiskTree(): Unable to access file.
	Tue Aug 13 23:10:51 2002 - msSearchDiskTree(): Unable to access file.
	Tue Aug 13 23:11:46 2002 - msSearchDiskTree(): Unable to access file.
	Tue Aug 13 23:11:46 2002 - msSearchDiskTree(): Unable to access file.

the problem is, I can't figure out what is causing the above error. My 
map file is fairly complicated, and as far as I can see, everything is 
being drawn the way I want it. So, what is it that is inaccessible? Is 
there a way the log can append (or prefix) the line number in the source 
that caused the error? Is there a way to determine where it is failing?

Tia as always.

pk/


On Tuesday, August 13, 2002, at 11:58  AM, Lowell.Filak wrote:

> The LOG is for logging requests whereas the ERRORFILE is for logging
> errors. Does the user that the webserver is running as have permission
> to
> write to /var/www/html/bims/tmp/mapserver.log or alternately
> /var/www/html/bims/tmp/error.log? There should at least be a log file
> with
> a record of the request.
> Lowell
>
> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002, Puneet Kishor wrote:
>
>> well, I already had a line in my map file like so...
>>
>>  	LOG "/var/www/html/bims/tmp/mapserver.log"
>>
>> I added
>>
>> 	$ENV{MS_ERRORFILE} = "/var/www/html/bims/tmp/mapserver.log"
>>
>> to my perl script. I don't get any log files written out. Do I have to
> set
>> this ENV variable in the Apache conf file? or at the shell prompt
> using
>> setenv?
>>
>> Tia,
>>
>> pk/
>>