I HATE APPLE

tom -- i'll try that when i get home. That is interesting. At home, I have the firewall set to "allow all connections," but here (where it works), it's set to "allow only specific," and of course web server is on that list.

hm. well, that was no go. the ipfw says it allows any to any, just like on my work machine. I reset the firewall to allow only certain programs, made sure web server was on that list, and nothing. No localhost, no damn apache.

What does it say in error_log? Apache's usually pretty good about complaining in there.

hm, where is that? There doesn't seem to be any /var/log/httpd or /var/log/apache2

ah ha... because it's not there.

my system log, however, is filled with primarily this message:

Jan  4 20:48:01 Hatter org.apache.httpd[1087]: Unable to open logs

Jan  4 20:48:01 Hatter com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[1087]): Exited with exit code: 1

Jan  4 20:48:01 Hatter com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

Jan  4 20:48:11 Hatter org.apache.httpd[1096]: (2)No such file or directory: httpd: could not open error log file /private/var/log/apache2/error_log.

Jan  4 20:48:11 Hatter org.apache.httpd[1096]: Unable to open logs

Jan  4 20:48:11 Hatter com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd[1096]): Exited with exit code: 1

Jan  4 20:48:11 Hatter com.apple.launchd[1] (org.apache.httpd): Throttling respawn: Will start in 10 seconds

over and over again, every ten seconds, forever and ever ago.

rebuild permissions

er, "repair" permissions

I told kenan to nose around in console.app DAYS ago

ok... not a whole lot of output from that (I repair permissions pretty regularly), but almost all of it was "has been modified and was not repaired," mostly is the system library, with one "ACL found but not expected" in applications. I normally wouldn't think that was cause for alarm. Anyway, after that was done I started apachectl and went back to the system log... same shit.

mostly IN the system library

yeah, so I nosed around the logs finally, but why do I not even HAVE an apache2 directory in the log directory? It's certainly looking for it.

mkdirhier /private/var/log/apache2/

I was wondering that, if I could just make the directory. I'll give it a shot.

But meanwhile, fuck it. It's nice to have two computers. I installed lampp on my linux machine in five minutes, and it's up and working and positively spry. I'm not going to get any more jangled than I am over the mac thing. Besides, ubuntu has been nothing but good to me for a couple months, the backup program I run seems to work great, and I have mad space on this machine. May as well go ahead and use it as more than just a torrent station.

% cat `which mkdirhier`

#!/bin/sh

mkdir -p "$@"

or that

$ cat `which mkdirhier`
#!/bin/sh
# $Xorg: mkdirhier.sh,v 1.3 2000/08/17 19:41:53 cpqbld Exp $
# Courtesy of Paul Eggert

newline='
'
IFS=$newline

case ${1--} in
-*) echo >&2 "mkdirhier: usage: mkdirhier directory ..."; exit 1
esac

status=

for directory
do
case $directory in
'')
echo >&2 "mkdirhier: empty directory name"
status=1
continue;;
*"$newline"*)
echo >&2 "mkdirhier: directory name contains a newline: \`\`$directory''"
status=1
continue;;
///*) prefix=/;; # See Posix 2.3 "path".
//*) prefix=//;;
/*) prefix=/;;
-*) prefix=./;;
*) prefix=
esac

IFS=/
set x $directory
case $2 in
*/*) # IFS parsing is broken
IFS=' '
set x `echo $directory | tr / ' '`
;;
esac
IFS=$newline
shift

for filename
do
path=$prefix$filename
prefix=$path/
shift

test -d "$path" || {
paths=$path
for filename
do
if [ -n "$filename" -a "$filename" != "." ]; then
path=$path/$filename
paths=$paths$newline$path
fi
done

mkdir $paths || status=$?

break
}
done
done

exit $status

then again, what are you doing using csh

then again, what are you doing using csh

Making very bad jokes.

HEY! Creating that directory worked. Will you look at that shit. Thanks all of you for your help.

I believe I shall have to explain what I did to those OS X forum threads that remain clueless.

wow, so apache user doesn't have the right permissions to mkdir in var

that's pretty locked down I guess

Attention time machine fans!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/wizardishungry/2181145041/

safari set a new record for memory hogging last night. 800MB of RAM? WTF?

HINT: "Virtual Memory" also includes disk cache, shared libraries and open files. RSIZE is what matters.

that was the RSIZE

itunes also gets up to like 450MB just playing tracks

unbelievable

All right, I'm starting to get sick of a little something here -- am ripping some discs and about every sixth disc or so, iTunes will contact the CDDB as per usual and then refuse to display the disc anywhere, and neither will the desktop or Finder window. I end up having to fully restart the computer, at which time the disc will appear on the desktop with the appropriate CDDB info. Any way I can get the disc to appear on the desktop/in iTunes properly without having to go through a full restart?

lol let me know when that drive starts making buzzing sounds on spinup
depending on your avg weekly rip volume it sounds like you could be 6 mos out from a replacement part

Conceivably. As I'm thinking of ripping a hell of a lot more, I'd be just as happy to get some sort of external drive recommendation.

(As for buzzing sounds on spinup, oh it happens from time to time all right...should note that the drive's under a year old, replacement for the original after it seized up with a DVD in it -- still have AppleCare on the whole thing for another year and a half, happily.)

since yesterday's update safari seems to have settled down a bit, it only wants 300MB today :(

and have you tried cache cleaner yet?

ah thanks for teh reminder!

the system info box on that says I have a 486! that's encouraging

WTF?!

for reals

oh and while i'm at it 10.5.2 had better fix the itunes artwork screensaver :(

ok i did something stupid - a few weeks ago i had to delete something from my keychain (a wifi password that had changed), and that proved so easy that i thought i'd delete a couple more things too. unfortunately it seems like i deleted *everything*. this seems to mean that every time i launch mail, safari, ichat etc (although not firefox, for some reason) i have to type my login password, which is pretty annoying. i've tried keychain first aid, both verify and repair, and neither seem to do anything. what should i do?

smash.

delete the "login" keychain, create a new one with exactly the same password as your user account.

I haven't even worked out what keychain is for yet.

I have another dumb question - my iMac won't connect to the internet if I use Safari, or try and do a Software Update, yet Firefox works totally fine. I can't see anywhere in Safari menus to configure anything about how to connect. Any idea what the problem could be?

ismash

what does safari say? does pinging google work?

I just get Page Cannot Be Displayed or whatever.

But if I use Firefox, it works. I guess the Software Update uses the same connection config that Safari is using because that won't work either, I get some server error on that.

delete the "login" keychain, create a new one with exactly the same password as your user account.

awesome! thanks a ton, that's been driving me crazy.

Well whatever is in the "or whatever" is kinda the clue to fixing it! What happens when you type ping google.com into the terminal?

well firefox is working so I imagine he'll be able to ping stuff

i bet it's a proxy setting

just spent $120 on a new macbook battery yesterday :/

that's what I'm betting too, but I wanted to check it wasn't *just* Firefox that had the proxy settings. This happens at my uni. xp