From: Rob McCool 
Newsgroups: netscape.devs-nsapi
Subject: Re: seminit failed (2)? ( ORACLE?)
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 1996 18:50:09 -0800

> Science No one answer my previous question, I think may be I need to put
> more info about how I got the following error!
> 
> I use ORACLE PROC compiler to write a NSAPI program that will connect to
> ORACLE Server. However, I got the "@.so" file successfully, but when
> I try to start my web server from command line, I got the following
> error!
> 
> "seminit failed (Permission denied)"
> 
> I think my question is how does the permission stuff work because there
> are two user id, one for web server and one for oracle.

On startup, the server tries to create a file lock, usually named
/tmp/netsite.XXX where XXX is your server's port number. If that file
already exists, or if the server can't write to /tmp, this would
cause the problem you're seeing.

--Rob

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Rob McCool, robm@netscape.com http://home.netscape.com/people/robm/
Stunt Programmer, Netscape Communications Corporation
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...

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