OpenBSD - Error reading owner-info for <REPOPATH>: No such file or directory (2)

[Paul W. Rankin]

On 2021-02-25 20:26, John Keeping wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2021 at 05:00:57PM +1000, Paul W. Rankin wrote:
>> I'm running cgit v1.2.3 on OpenBSD 6.8 with httpd and slowcgi. I'm
>> getting tons of log errors in the form:
>>      Error reading owner-info for <REPOPATH>: No such file or 
>> directory
>> (2)
> 
> Without any changes to the code, if you set "repo.owner" (or
> "gitweb.owner" if you have "enable-git-config" set) then this value 
> will
> be used and the loop that tries getpwuid() won't be entered.
> 
> I think it would be reasonable to provide a way to disable the "owner
> from filesystem" code via cgitrc.  It's probably meaningless in many
> setups, for example with Gitolite, where all the repositories are owned
> by a "git" user anyway.

Thank you John, this solved it!