Re: [mv] Minivend 4 released -- install problems again

[Pugdog <pugdog@ibm.net>]

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Ok, I thought I'd give it one more shot....  I got through the make process,
and even the initial catalog creation -- up to:

>run "mysqladmin create test_minivend"? ..y
>
>Command returned error code 255: Illegal seek
>There were errors in copying the demo files.  Cannot
>continue.  Check to see if permissions are correct.

Which I figure is where it hits a problem with MySQL because I require
a password, and there is no place in the config script to give it a "super 
user"
to create the databases, etc.  There should be.... it's not a security hole to
require the password be entered to do the creating -- as long as it's not 
saved.

Then, one time I got it to run, and it ran up until the last errors -- it 
made the
databases but died (this time) at line 123 (not 122) in InMemory.pm again,
with the undefined value problem.  All tables seem to be created.  Still can't
figure that out.

Anyway, I rebooted the server, re-installed the software -- ie:  make 
install, and
set all the permissions in the minivend directory to  it's own owner, group 
and
permissions 775 (just to over come any permissions problems).  I ran the
bin/makecat simple program,and it ran fine up until the end:


>Since you selected the MySQL option, you need to create
>a database named "minivend_test". In a default MySQL
>configuration, any user may create and drop and modify
>test_* databases, but some administrators disable this.
>
>run "mysqladmin create test_minivend"? ..y
>
>Command returned error code 255: Illegal seek
>done.
>/www/postcards/cgi-bin/simple exists, overwrite? yMoving link program to 
>/www/postcards/cgi-bin/simple........
>done.
>Moving HTML files to /www/postcards/public/simple...........done.
>Moving image files to /www/postcards/public/simple/images...done.
>Add catalog to minivend.cfg? y
>Add catalog to server running on PID 1254? y
>
>Deleting old configuration simple.
>
>Done with installation. If my reading of your input is correct, you
>should be able to access the demo catalog with the following URL:
>
>         http://www.postcards.com/simple


I am now up to the point where I need to run the restart command:

># bin/minivend -r
>The Minivend server was not running (/www/mvend/etc/minivend.pid).
>Low traffic settings.
>Calling MiniMate....
>MiniVend V4.00
>Configuring catalog simple...
>Using MySQL for databases, DSN=dbi:mysql:test_minivend.
>
>simple config error: products not a database, cannot use as products file
>
>simple: error in configuration. Skipping.
>simple: config error. Skipping.
>MiniVend server started in INET and UNIX mode(s) (process id 1254)
>#

Ok, this is different from before -- I was given an error that I had to supply
a password and ID for MySQL ... which I did, and then I'd hit the the problems
reported previously for beta2

What the heck does that error message mean??  All the files are there... they
are the same as the install... that is a snip of my telnet log ... I didn't 
do anything
in between.

test_minivend is there, with all the tables apparently stuffed.

Once I get past this, I'm sure I'll hit the undefined value again... but that's
the next installment.

Robert S. Pataki, MD
President, PUGDOG Enterprises, Inc.
http://www.postcards.com


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