RE: Problems starting server

["Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from "Thompson-Jordan" <Thompson-Jordan@mindspring.com>     ******

Check permissions first. This is covered in the docs. I also noticed that
you said you must start your server using /cgi-dir/mvend/bin/start. This
indicates that you may have installed Minivend into your web server's
cgi-bin directory. Minivend is usually installed in a directory totally
separate from your web server's document directory, typically in
/home/minivend or /home/user/minivend.

Christopher Thompson


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-minivend-users@minivend.com
> [mailto:owner-minivend-users@minivend.com]On Behalf Of Andres Biscione
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 1999 11:34 PM
> To: minivend-users@minivend.com
> Subject: Problems starting server
>
>
> ******    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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