Problems starting server

["Andres Biscione" <bikio@aper.net>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Andres Biscione" <bikio@aper.net>     ******

Hello-

        I'm a new subscriber to this list, as well as a new user of Minivend
(I hope). Having tried for many days to install the program, I didn't came
up with the correct way to do it. I faced the "We're sorry, the Minivend
server is unavailable" error, and checking in the mail list history, I found
lots of mails talking about this. Though, I haven't yet solved my problem,
which I think has its origin in the fact that I can't start the Minivend
server.

        The problem is that I must start the Minivend server using
/cgi-dir/mvend/bin/start. But two things may happen, depending on which user
tries to start the server:

        1) When trying to start the server logged as 'minivend', it just
seems to become tilt. Nothing else happens for hours.

        2) When trying to start it as root, a message is prompted telling
that it can't be ran that way, and finally it offers to run it as minivend.
When I answer 'yes' to this question, the problem becomes the following:

        "Do you want me to start it as 'minivend' now? [y] y
        su: could not retrieve requested class information
        aper: {31} % May 31 13:38:50 aper su: start: unknown class"

        This, I think, is a "unix-related" problem, but I really don't
understand what this means. Is there something in my system that doesn't
allow me to run the file as 'minivend'? Some system info follows:

        Minivend version: 3.12
        PERL: 5.004
        BSDI BSD/OS 3.1

        I'd really appreciate your help with this. Thanks a lot in advance,


                Andres Biscione
         Buenos Aires - Argentina

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