Install ajaxterm: emerge net-misc/ajaxterm Try to start it up (how to start up is not documentated): /etc/init.d/ajaxterm start Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge net-misc/ajaxterm 2. /etc/init.d/ajaxterm start 3. Actual Results: AjaxTerm at http://localhost:8022/ pid: 23551 [ !! ] Expected Results: AjaxTerm at http://localhost:8022/ pid: 23551 [ ok ] and http://[myserver]:8022/ should display a console sesssion This problem seems to be occurring with others. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-793985-highlight-ajaxterm.html Maybe this is a documentation issue? It is suppose to be "simple to install" per the author's site: http://antony.lesuisse.org/qweb/trac/wiki/AjaxTerm
You need to find out why it doesn't start. If nothing is in /var/log/messages, you should start it directly instead of using the init script. Simply call python /usr/share/ajaxterm/ajaxterm.py and see what happens. Maybe add those options that the init scripts adds. It should then output some error message.
I found one of the problems: I was trying to access the server from another machine -- clearly the http://localhost:8022 means localhost and one must not substitute an IP in the URL; the URL is meant to only work from the machine where ajaxterm is running. (The web site explains how to configure Apache for an HTTPS session so you can use ajaxterm from another machine.) I was trying this on a SheevaPlug (armv5t processor) and unfortunately my Firefox is not working on that so I can confirm on the same machine that the interface is not working. I therefore, moved my test over to another Gentoo box (AMD64) and got the same problem. TOn the other Gentoo box, I noticed that the first time I tried, there was an error message suggesting a port conflict: /etc/init.d/ajaxterm start * Caching service dependencies ... * Cannot add provide 'net', as a service with the same name exists! [ ok ] * Starting AjaxTerm on port 8022 ... AjaxTerm at http://localhost:8022/ pid: 18149 [ !! ] localhost pri # When I tried again, the "Cannot add provide 'net'..." message was ommitted on subsequent attempts: localhost pri # /etc/init.d/ajaxterm start * Starting AjaxTerm on port 8022 ... AjaxTerm at http://localhost:8022/ pid: 18312 [ !! ] localhost pri # /etc/init.d/ajaxterm start * Starting AjaxTerm on port 8022 ... AjaxTerm at http://localhost:8022/ pid: 18397 [ !! ] localhost pri # I monitoring /var/log/messages and nothing showed up. Is there another log I should monitor? Also tried invoking the script directly: localhost pri # python /usr/share/ajaxterm/ajaxterm.py --daemon --port=8022 --uid=nobody AjaxTerm at http://localhost:8022/ pid: 18441 localhost pri # python /usr/share/ajaxterm/ajaxterm.py --daemon --port=8022 --uid=nobody AjaxTerm at http://localhost:8022/ pid: 18444 localhost pri # python /usr/share/ajaxterm/ajaxterm.py --daemon --port=8022 --uid=nobody AjaxTerm at http://localhost:8022/ pid: 18447 localhost pri # When I checked ps -A, there appeared all the processes, though only run process pid was showing: localhost pri # ls /var/run/aja* /var/run/ajaxterm.pid localhost pri # cat /var/run/ajaxterm.pid 18447 localhost pri #
I verified that 8022 was not called for: cat /etc/services ... soap-http 7627/udp http-alt 8008/tcp # HTTP Alternate http-alt 8008/udp http-alt 8080/tcp webcache # HTTP Alternate http-alt 8080/udp webcache # WWW caching service sunproxyadmin 8081/tcp tproxy # Sun Proxy Admin Service sunproxyadmin 8081/udp tproxy # Transparent Proxy pichat 9009/tcp # Pichat Server ... I scanned the current machine and it looks like the port is shown as having a listener: localhost pri # nmap -sT -O localhost Starting Nmap 4.76 ( http://nmap.org ) at 2009-10-29 21:43 PDT [redacted] Not shown: 997 closed ports PORT STATE SERVICE 22/tcp open ssh 53/tcp open domain 8022/tcp open unknown Device type: general purpose Running: Linux 2.6.X OS details: Linux 2.6.17 - 2.6.25 Network Distance: 0 hops OS detection performed. Please report any incorrect results at http://nmap.org/submit/ . Nmap done: 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 1.54 seconds localhost pri # I then tried http://localhost:8022 and it worked (on the AMD64 box).
I also altered /etc/init.d/ajaxterm to DAEMON=/usr/bin/python2.6 to accommodate that I have python2.6. Although I still cannot get Firefox to work on the SheevaPlug (problems with Pango); I was successfully able to access the SheevaPlug server via https from another server. I configured a proxy using something along this line for my Apache configuration: Listen 443 NameVirtualHost *:443 <VirtualHost *:443> ServerName localhost SSLEngine On SSLCertificateKeyFile ssl/apache.pem SSLCertificateFile ssl/apache.pem ProxyRequests Off <Proxy *> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Proxy> ProxyPass /ajaxterm/ http://localhost:8022/ ProxyPassReverse /ajaxterm/ http://localhost:8022/ </VirtualHost>
same problem here...although i ran the same command as the init.d script does and its working just fine
same problem here. ajaxterm starts (as i changed DAEMON line to /usr/bin/python2.6), but no display of the shell appeared. i also get the info of my ssh daemon that a user logs in... heres the log of my apache: x.x.x.x - - [08/May/2010:20:37:44 +0200] "GET /ajaxterm/ HTTP/1.1" 200 631 x.x.x.x - - [08/May/2010:20:37:45 +0200] "GET /ajaxterm/ajaxterm.css HTTP/1.1" 200 1557 x.x.x.x - - [08/May/2010:20:37:45 +0200] "GET /ajaxterm/sarissa_dhtml.js HTTP/1.1" 200 4353 x.x.x.x - - [08/May/2010:20:37:45 +0200] "GET /ajaxterm/ajaxterm.js HTTP/1.1" 200 8244 x.x.x.x - - [08/May/2010:20:37:45 +0200] "GET /ajaxterm/sarissa.js HTTP/1.1" 200 27246 x.x.x.x - - [08/May/2010:20:37:47 +0200] "POST /ajaxterm/u HTTP/1.1" 200 135 i do not know what else to try...
Created attachment 243855 [details] replacement /etc/init.d/ajaxterm ajaxterm seems to give the wrong exit code to start-stop-daemon, so adding the --oknodo option helps.
