[Catalyst] Session unexpectedly expiring

[Jeff Chimene]

Wade.Stuart at fallon.com wrote:
>
>
> Jeff Chimene <jchimene at gmail.com> wrote on 05/20/2007 10:13:33 PM:
>
>   
>> Thomas L. Shinnick wrote:
>>     
>>> At 08:20 PM 5/20/2007, Jeff Chimene wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>> I'm trying to figure out why my sessions are expiring in
>>>> script/xxx_cgi.pl but not script/xxx_server.pl
>>>>         
>>> [snip]
>>>       
>>>> I'm using the Session, Session::Store::FastMmap,
>>>> Session::State::Cookie plugins.
>>>>         
>>> I've not used it, I'm guessing, and I'm an idiot, but isn't this
>>> likely permissions problems, between running standalone vs. running
>>> under Apache?  Any chance the backing storage file is not available to
>>> Apache processes?  Peeking at the docs:
>>>     storage
>>>          Specifies the file to be used for the sharing of session
>>> data. ...
>>>         Note that the file will be created with mode 0640, which means
>>> that
>>>          it will only be writeable by processes running with the same
>>> uid as
>>>          the process that creates the file.  ....
>>>
>>> Try deleting the backing file before re-running under Apache?
>>>       
>> Good catch. Apache (or script/aic_server.pl) refuses to honor a request
>> if the working storage file created by the other HTTP server exists. I
>> couldn't even get started w/o a preliminary "sudo rm -r /tmp/aic" So,
>> although that's /a/ problem, it's not /the/ problem.
>>     
>
> Without more info (you will post the info Matt asked for?)  
Posted yesterday:
http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/msg05448.html
> this still seems like the best candidate for the issue.  
Ibid. This isn't the problem
> If you are running on Linux
> and have selinux turned on, another common issue is that your policy does
> not allow promiscuous writes from apache.  
Debian Etch
> You may verify this is or is not
> the issue by running audit2why < /var/log/audit/audit.log (or wherever your
> se auditlog is located) and noting any blocks that are happening via yourweb server process.
>   
> Also you may want to force the directory for the session stuffs to a sane
> location ( don't know if you are or not -- you will post the info that Matt
> asked for?).
>   
Ibid.

I've posted this A.M. w/r/t disabling auto() in Root.pm:
http://www.mail-archive.com/catalyst@lists.rawmode.org/msg05457.html

Cheers,.
jec