Visitor counters are all broken

[sneader]

Ugh, what a day... SMTP problems... FrontPage problems... now I see that all my customer's visitor counters are broken. The counters are showing up as a 'broken icon' and generating 500 errors.

Any pointers? FYI, permissions of /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/Count.cgi are:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 151000 Jul 21 04:27 Count.cgi


I think I'm turning off Auto Current Updates for a while.

- Scott

[sneader]

OK, I'm getting closer to solving the problem. I'm seeing the following in /etc/httpd/logs/error_log

[Fri Jul 22 00:23:07 2005] [error] [client 123.123.123.123] Premature end of script headers: /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/Count.cgi

Somehow maybe the Count.cgi program got corrupted? Now to figure out how to reinstall, etc.

- Scott

[sneader]

Ok, I must be dumb. Count.cgi is all gibberish. Is this an encrypted cgi program or what am I doing wrong? It starts with "ELF


" if this helps. Many, but not all, of the .cgi programs in the /cgi-sys directory are the same. But others are in plain text.



- Scott

[sneader]

Sure was nice to talk to myself tonight while I resolved the problem. Thanks to a 3 year old post here on this forum, someone mentioned changing the permissions from root.root to root.wheel. That did it. For the newbies like me out there, I went into /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/ and then issued the command

ls -l

This showed permissions on all the files in the directory. Here is how Count.cgi was listed:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 151000 Jul 21 04:27 Count.cgi

Then I issued this command:

chown root.wheel Count.cgi

Now the permissions look like this:

-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 151000 Jul 21 04:27 Count.cgi


I did NOT change the permissions on this file or any files today, and I have no idea how this happened. (except I have a ticket opened with cPanel on another unrelated matter, and they did root into the box 6 hours ago. Hmmm.....)

Glad today is done... tomorrow MUST be a better day.

- Scott

[EDevil]

Thanks! That solved it.