Michael Moussa's questions

I have my C:\Users\Mike\Projects directory registered for sharing in VirtualBox as "projects" (full access, permanent).

In my Ubuntu 10.04 server VM, I am using the following mount command:

sudo mount -t vboxsf -o uid=1000,gid=1000,rw,exec projects /home/mike/projects

The shared directory is mounted.

mike@zsce:~$ ll
drwxrwxrwx 1 mike mike 4.0K 2011-02-01 10:32 projects

If I create a file from Windows I can see and delete it on Ubuntu and vice-versa. So far, so good.

The problem is that I cannot do svn checkouts from the guest here.

mike@zsce:~/projects$ svn co svn://server/myproject/ ./myproject
svn: Can't move 'myproject/.svn/tmp/entries' to 'myproject/.svn/entries': Operation not permitted

My intention is to use the VM as a local development server. Use Windows 7 for all IDE/e-mail/web/etc needs and just use the server to test and commit my code. The Windows IDE and the VM's web server would be operating on the same source code.

However, the entries file ends up not being writable by me.

mike@zsce:~/projects/myproject/.svn$ ll entries
-r-xr-xr-x 1 mike mike 166 2011-02-01 10:34 entries

Even root cannot delete the files without first executing chmod -R 777.

What gives?

We are using Jetty to run an Apache Solr index. We've had some queries that have grown way beyond the previously expected maximum length, and are now having issues where most queries are not returning any data because the server doesn't respond (browser says "Connection reset").

These requests are not being made through a browser, they're being made programmatically using the Apache_Solr_Service PHP library. The application is expecting queries to come in as HTTP GET requests, so simply switching to a POST will not solve this problem.

How can we increase the maximum allowed HTTP GET query length in Jetty?

Thanks!

A bash script was provided to me by a sysadmin which requires three values to be input by me. The values are read using "read" rather than read directly from the command-line.

echo "Enter value:"
read myValue
echo "Enter value 2:"
read myOtherValue

The three values I'd be entering are predictable, and I need to run this script frequently, so I would like to automate it; however, simply executing the script with the params in the command-line does not work.

./script.sh myValue myOtherValue

I can supply the first value if I echo it and then pipe it to the script, but that only works for the first param. I don't know how to pass the rest of them in this fashion.

echo "myValue" | ./script.sh

I do not have access to modify the script to just read the arguments.

Any ideas?

I am running Ubuntu Server 9.04 in VirtualBox on my work PC as a development environment. I have some scripts that I've put in my user's crontab that run throughout the day while I'm SSHed into the VM.

Last night, I closed PuTTy and all of my other running applications (except for VirtualBox and the VM) and went home. I came back this morning to discover that my cron jobs didn't run at all, yet when I SSHed into the VM, the next scheduled job ran. I set the schedule to 5min to test, disconnected again, and the jobs stopped running on schedule.

They seem to only run if I'm logged in to the machine. Obviously, I want them to run on schedule even if I'm not logged in to the VM, otherwise there's no point.

Is there something I've failed to configure correctly?

New Information:

There are now 3 entries in /var/log/cron.log saying the following "Mount of private directory return code [256]"... the entries correspond to when the cron job is supposed to run.

I thought they are supposed to run as my userid? Why would my own userid be unable to run a script in my home directory?

I'm having problems compiling SVN 1.6.3 from source on our Ubuntu 8.04 development server.

I downloaded the 1.6.3 source files and dependencies and ran ./configure. About 2 minutes into the process, it complains about:

configure: error: We require OpenSSL; try --with-openssl

So I try running ./configure --with-openssl, but then it complains that --with-openssl is not a recognized option.

I Googled the problem and found someone suggesting to do ./configure --without-ssl. I tried that and it still complains about requiring OpenSSL.

The INSTALL file says that OpenSSL is optional, so I don't know what gives. http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/INSTALL. We don't need OpenSSL... we are using SVN via the svn://, not https://.

Any suggestions?

FYI: I do not have root privileges on this server. I'm "just" a developer. The server admin says he'll run make install, but I have to do all of the prior steps.

Thanks!