SUMMARY: X.500 - a couple of problems

From: Richard Rogers <ittrmr_at_staffs.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 1996 10:14:52 +0100 ()

On Mon, 15 Jul 1996 14:27:17 +0100 () Richard Rogers
<ittrmr_at_staffs.ac.uk> wrote:

Thanks go to Todd Acheson and Steven Newton for their help with these
queries.
 
> I've been experimenting with Digital's X.500 server, and have a
> couple of problems, one directly related, the other indirectly...
>
> First - after creating a very small database (3 entries!) heavily
> modelled on DEC's tutorial example in the manual, I am finding that
> all "organizationalPerson" entries seem to be reported by dxdlu as
> being directly under the "organization" level, no regard being taken
> of the "organizationalUnit" level, which it does not report at all
> (although the Windows freeware client Wax500 does distinguish).

It seems that's just the way dxdlu is.

> Second - I've been trying to get the WWW/X.500 gateway "web500gw"
> going. I've got it to compile and run, but Netscape always comes back
> with "Document contains no data"; the web500gw daemon, running in
> debug mode, tells me
>
> parent: catching child status
> select: Interrupted system call

The fix for web500gw is to comment out all calls to setproctitle().
It's now running OK.

Richard

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Richard Rogers
Information Technology Services
Staffordshire University
Tel: 01785 (+44 1785) 353395
E-mail: R.M.Rogers_at_staffs.ac.uk or ittrmr_at_staffs.ac.uk
Received on Wed Jul 24 1996 - 11:34:21 NZST

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