Question

When I attempt to run the configure command, underneith the CGI setup section, an error appears that says, Software error: Argument "/usr/bin/rcs" isn't numeric in numeric lt (<) at /srv/twiki/lib/TWiki/Configure/Checkers/RCS/Checker.pm line 51.

After this error appears, configure does not present other categories to the browser to configure.

Here are the environmental variables listed in the cgi setup (read-only) section of configure. Operating system Linux 2.6.16 (i586-linux-thread-multi) Perl version 5.008008 (linux) @INC library path /srv/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib//arch /srv/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib//5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /srv/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib//5.8.8 /srv/twiki/lib/CPAN/lib/ /srv/twiki/lib /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8/i586-linux-thread-multi /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl .

This is the Perl library path, used to load TWiki modules, third-party modules used by some plugins, and Perl built-in modules. CGI bin directory /srv/twiki/bin TWiki module in @INC path TWiki.pm (Version: TWiki-4.1.0, Tue, 16 Jan 2007, build 12567) found Perl modules Archive::Tar 1.30 installed B::Deparse 0.71 installed CGI::Carp 1.29 installed Data::Dumper 2.121 installed File::Basename 2.74 installed File::Copy 2.09 installed File::Find 1.10 installed File::Glob 1.05 installed File::Path 1.08 installed File::Spec 3.12 installed File::Temp 0.17 installed IO::File 1.13 installed MIME::Base64 3.07 installed POSIX 1.09 installed Socket 1.78 installed Time::Local 1.13 installed CGI::Cookie 1.27 installed CGI::Session 4.20 installed Locale::Maketext::Lexicon 0.49 installed Net::SMTP 2.29 installed Apache::Htpasswd 1.8 installed Digest::MD5 2.36 installed Digest::SHA1 2.10 installed Encode 2.12 installed Encode::compat Not installed. may be required for international characters Getopt::Long 2.35 installed I18N::Langinfo 0.02 installed Lingua::EN::Sentence 0.25 installed Unicode::MapUTF8 1.11 installed Win32::Console Not installed. may be required for Windows PATH_INFO

For a URL such as http://localhost/twiki/bin/configure/foo/bar, the correct PATH_INFO is /foo/bar, without any prefixed path components. Click here to test this - particularly if you are using mod_perl, Apache or IIS, or are using a web hosting provider. Look at the new path info here. It should be /foo/bar. mod_perl Not used for this script

mod_perl is loaded into Apache CGI user userid = apache groups = www,www

Your CGI scripts are executing as this user. Original PATH /sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:/opt/gnome/sbin:/root/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin:/bin:/usr/games:/opt/gnome/bin:/opt/kde3/bin:/usr/lib/mit/bin:/usr/lib/mit/sbin:/usr/local/apache2/bin:/usr/local/apache2/bin

This is the PATH value passed in from the web server to this script - it is reset by TWiki scripts to the PATH below, and is provided here for comparison purposes only. Current PATH /bin:/usr/bin

This is the actual PATH setting that will be used by Perl to run programs. It is normally identical to {SafeEnvPath}, unless that variable is empty, in which case this will be the webserver users standard path..

Thanks, Jeffrey

Environment

-- JeffreyJohnson - 19 Jan 2007

Answer

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I found the answer! The rcs install program put all the compiled rcs commands into /usr/local/bin. The program was looking for them in /usr/bin. Modifying the installation path and remaking the rcs files solved the problem.

-- JeffreyJohnson - 19 Jan 2007

Thanks for reporting, this needs to be fixed. Tracked in Bugs:Item3473.

-- PeterThoeny - 19 Jan 2007