[OpenAFS] Development status of mod_waklog and filedrawers

Dave Botsch botsch@cnf.cornell.edu
Mon, 4 Feb 2013 09:44:20 -0500


I'm using it on RHEL6 with php-5.3.3-14.el6_3.x86_64 and
php-Smarty-2.6.27-1.el6.noarch .

It does, however, run rather slowly... seems to be as a result of it
stat'ing all the files in a directory.


On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 03:40:40PM +0100, Staffan H=E4m=E4l=E4 wrote:
> I got mod_waklog to work on apache 2.2 at least.
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> I've found a lot of info in this posting:
> https://lists.openafs.org/pipermail/openafs-info/2009-May/031480.html
>=20
> Stephen Quinney's patches are available here:
> http://old.nabble.com/mod_waklog-tt33632100.html
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> Aaron Knister's patches here:
> http://userpages.umbc.edu/~aaronk/waklog/patches_for_git
>=20
> I downloaded mod_waklog from git, and applied the patches in this order=
:
> patch -p1 < ../patches_aaron_knister/fix_build_scripts.patch
> patch -p1 < ../patches_aaron_knister/have_stropts_h.patch
> patch -p1 < ../patches_aaron_knister/gnu_source.patch
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> patch -p1 < ../patches_stephen_quinney/modwaklog-weakcrypto.patch
> patch -p1 < ../patches_stephen_quinney/modwaklog-libs.patch
>=20
>=20
> As I said, mod_waklog seems to work perfectly. However, I haven't
> got filedrawers to work yet. It does not seem to work with PHP
> 5.4.11 and Smarty 3.1.13.
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> I've read that it should work with PHP 5.x, but apparently not with
> 5.4, though I think I managed to fix that. (by loading some module
> statically instead of using "dl" - dynamically loaded modules, which
> is deprecated in 5.4).
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> Smarty 3.1.13 seems to be more difficult, I just get strange error mess=
ages.
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> I've found a note somewhere that it does not work with Smarty 2.x,
> and that version 1.x works. Maybe version 3.x has the same problem,
> and we need to downgrade to version 1.x.
>=20
>=20
> --S
>=20
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> On 2013-02-04 14:01, Joseph Timothy Foley wrote:
> >I would like to know more about this as well.  I tried to get mod_wakl=
og working on an Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit system but was unsuccessful.  It com=
piled but did not get loaded correctly into the Apache 2 I was using.  I =
asked a friend to was trying to use it at MIT, but they gave up and used =
IP-based ACLS.
> >
> >Where did you find a guide indicating which patches?
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Joe
> >
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: openafs-info-admin@openafs.org [mailto:openafs-info-admin@openaf=
s.org] On Behalf Of Staffan H=E4m=E4l=E4
> >Sent: 30. jan=FAar 2013 20:35
> >To: openafs-info@openafs.org
> >Subject: [OpenAFS] Development status of mod_waklog and filedrawers
> >
> >What is the current status of the mod_waklog and filedrawers projects?=
 I saw a thread about mod_waklog a few months ago, but what about filedra=
wers?
> >
> >I've managed to compile mod_waklog on Redhat RHEL6 64-bit after applyi=
ng five patches (by Aaron Knister and Stephen Quinney). It now works on A=
pache 2.2 (haven't tried 2.4 yet).
> >
> >Filedrawers seems to need some tweaking as well. I've found a few thin=
gs that needs to be changed for it to work with PHP 5.4. It also seems to=
 have problems with the current version of Smarty (version 3.1.13). I'm w=
orking through the things that need to be changed at the moment.
> >
> >It seems both mod_waklog and filedrawers haven't been updated for seve=
ral years. Does anyone maintain them?
> >
> >/Staffan
> >
> >--
> >Staffan H=E4m=E4l=E4
> >Lule=E5 University of Technology
> >Sweden
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