Re: [mv] Still struggling with mv4 installation.

[Hans-Joachim Leidinger <jojo@buchonline.net>]

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Ed LaFrance schrieb:
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> >What happen if you start the minivend server with the command
> >"bin/minivend -u"?
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> >Do you use vlink (UNIX) or tlink (INET)?
> >Are the files vlink and tlink in your <vendroot>/bin?
> 
> No they are not.

Hmmm...during the MV installation, MV need a compiler to build/create
the vlink and tlink. If you have not the permission to use the compiler,
you have no change to use MV. Attention, copy the vlink and tlink from
another FreeBSD system didnīt solved this. 

> >Can you list and see all the files in your cgi-bin directory?
> >Can you see the owner and group of the files in your cgi-bin directory?
> 
> There are no minivend-related files in my CGI-BIN.  I haven't gotten that
> far; I don't have a catalog installed.  I am still trying to get the server
> installed and running in mvend/.

Let this be! In my experience as any user "xyz", i haven't get any
success to install MV in my FreeBSD. Only as an user "root".

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> >your minivend files _and_ minivend directory. Hmmm...can you see the
> >user and group name of your files and directories?
> 
> Been there, did that, to the best of my ability, and according to you and
> others here is one suspect thing - the group name - , but I don't know how
> to change it: the ISP doesn't have chown available(to me) on this server:

A normal user in FreeBSD will not able to use chown (security)!

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> drwxr-xr-x   2 visprox  bsdi  4096 Mar 24 17:15 etc
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> I messed with the file permissions, so if they seem odd, it is because of
> me, but note the group membership of the files.  Should this be set to the
> username?  Does that mean I need a new entry in the group list?

Perhaps! A simple answer is (for example), 

1) your user name is "ed" and your group name is "france", you have to
tell MV during the MV installtion about this names
2) All the names of your cgi-bin directory must be the same name as 1)

Hmmm...i get an idea suddenly...try a fast check and install your MV
again with the name "visprox" and "bsdi" instead of your former names.
Maybe this can helps you. I don't know.

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> 
> Thank you, Joachim.  Your English is better than that of many Americans I
> know.  

Hmmm...maybe you have meet the wrong Americans? ;-))

> The ISP is trying to work with me on this - I am going to forward
> this message to them for their reference.  If you have any other comments,
> please send them along.

It is simply, very simply! Install MV as root, chown all MV files to the
right group and user name. And make sure, you have all perl modules
installed to support MV well.

 
> Incidentally, I also tried version 3.14-5.  Make test did not fail, as it
> did for 4.02, but when the server started, I had exactly the same error:
> "Cannot lock file: Permission denied."  There is definitely something amiss
> on the server side.

True! It is the permission problem! MV need the write and read
permissions!

 
Regards,

Joachim

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