Q. I don't see any command to log off when I'm done.
That's right, there isn't such a command. You don't need it.
However, there probably should be a way to log in as a different user, in case two people both want to use ACME News from the same computer. Currently the only way to do this is to exit and restart your browser. When you come back to ACME News it'll ask you to log in again, and you can specify a different user. This really ought to be made easier.
Q. How do I link a topic to an unlisted conference? It doesn't appear in the conference names popup.
Right, this is a security measure, to keep the names of unlisted conferences secret even from other hosts. To make such a link you have to send mail to a system administrator.
Q. How do I add or remove admins?
There's no form to do this via the web.
This is a security measure, I guess.
You have to do it from a login shell - just edit the file system/admins
.
Q. When I try to compile the programs I get the above error message. What's up?
You're probably on a Solaris machine, or other System-V type of Unix. Try changing from FLOCK-style locking to LOCKF-style locking. Look in the Makefile, there's a configuration paragraph about it.
Q. Pointing my browser at the acmenews dir just shows a list of files.
This means that your web server doesn't recognize index.cgi as a default CGI script to run for a directory. You have a few options:
.../acmenews/
use .../acmenews/news.cgi
,
and instead of .../acmenews/login/
use .../acmenews/login/login.cgi
.
DirectoryIndex index.cgi
directive to
srm.conf, although in some old NCSA servers you can only have one of
these directives so that's a problem.
Q. Bringing up any of the pages in my browser just shows a problem page.
The most likely cause of this is that when you compiled the programs, you
didn't get the CGI_DIR setting right.
Change the setting in your Makefile, do a make clean
,
then a make install
again,
and then run bin/fixpaths
again too.