Re: [mv] Still struggling with mv4 installation.

[Ed LaFrance <newmedia@newmediaems.com>]

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Bill and Joachim -

I want to thank you both for all this great input and analysis.  This 
problem is steadily getting whittled down to it's core, thanks mainly to 
your help.

I am forwarding all the latest to my technical contact at the ISP.  Perhaps 
the quickest solution would be Joachim's approach - have the ISP install 
the server as root user in my clients directory, then chown all the files 
and directories afterwards. I will post any follow up to the list benefit 
of all.

- Ed L.


At 02:09 PM 3/25/00 +0100, you wrote:
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>
>Bill Randle schrieb:
>[DEL the fine description of the MV server starting]
>
>WOW! Wonderful!
>
> > Now the flock() call in lockfile() is actually a Perl library function.
> > I haven't looked at the source code for this, but I imaging it just
> > takes its arguments and calls the OS flock() function.
> >
> > BTW, if step 6 had succeeded, you would have seen the "MiniVend server
> > started..." in the error.log file, so we know it didn't get that far.
> >
> > So, the big question is why is flock() on the PID file failing in
> > FreeBSD but working on all the other Unix OS's? I don't have an
> > answer, as I don't have a FreeBSD system to look at. Your directory
> > permission in etc look OK and it didn't fail in creating the file.
>
>Hmmm... the permission in etc look OK, but Ed has said, it has a wrong
>group/user name. _This_ cause the failure in my FreeBSD. If i stop the
>MV server, use the chown command to set right group/user name and start
>the MV server again, it works fine.
>
> > If it were me, I would check the man page for flock ("man flock")
> > on a FreeBSD system. Does it mention anything about a Permission
> > denied error in the ERRORS section? If that doesn't turn up anything,
> > I'd ask on one of the FreeBSD mailing lists if there's anything
> > special/different about the FreeBSD version of flock() as compared
> > to Linux or Solaris.
>
>This is very great offer! Feel free and tell me to do this and that for
>you. I use FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE
>
>Regards,
>
>         Joachim
>
>
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