Re: redhat 5.2 woes

[Mi-Recordz <mi-r@mi-recordz.com>]

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Micheal,

You probably know more about it than I do but here's what I posted a few days ago.

Here's a summary of what it took to get MiniVend3.11 working on my Red
Hat 5.2 system.

Red Hat 5.2, Perl-5.004m7-1 and MiniVend 3.11. I had problems with
Minivend and the Version of Perl that came with my RH5.2 distro:

Use of uninitialized value at /usr/lib/perl5/Text/ParseWords.pm line 73,

<GLOBAL
> chunk 280.
snip
snip

Numerous references to wrong or buggy versions of Perl tipped me off and

without a great deal of thought I upgraded to perl-5.004m7-1.i386.rpm (I

think this is a developer version, not sure...) and ran "rpm -uvh
perl-5.004m7-1.i386.rpm". The "-u" is an upgrade switch. The perl
5.005... requires the newer glibc, I forget the version number. I didn't

want to deal with upgrading glibc so that's how I came to
Perl-5.004m7-1.  I wouldn't be surprised if there's a better version to
have chosen.

Then of course after a few "Not Found...." messages I decided to set up
ScriptAlias in my <VirtualHost></VirtualHost>
Apache virtual host:

<VirtualHost mi-recordz.com>
ServerAdmin rtp@mi-recordz.com
DocumentRoot /home/mi-r/www/html
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin /home/mi-r/www/cgi-bin
ServerName www.mi-recordz.com
ErrorLog logs/mi-recordz.com-error_log
TransferLog logs/mi-recordz.com-access_log
</VirtualHost>

Michael Bloom wrote:

> ******    message to minivend-users from Michael Bloom <mike@gomi.com>     ******
>
> Hello All,
>
> I'm a recent initate to minivend, but I have a bit of cgi and apache
> experience as well as perl. I just wasted days trying to upgrade this
> platform (redhat 5.2) to a version of perl that doesn't cause the
> installer / runtimes to break.  I'm asking for anyone who has a more
> detailed master plan for dealing with redhat than minivend has posted on
> their site to come forward.
>  I am running perl 5.004_004 and have tried several more recent
> versions. I have run the upgrade script that used to be on the minivend
> site that automates moving from the glibc broken redhat perl build to a
> 'clean' one that should work. It didn't.
>
> I built everything on freebsd box in less than an hour ... but redhat ..
> not so easy. Any Ideas?
>
> Michael Bloom
>
> Gomi Media
>
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