Re: [mv] Still struggling with mv4 installation.

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

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Mark Stosberg schrieb:
[DEL]
> > BTW:
> > Can someone of this list explain me, why the above trouble can happen
> > with FreeBSD?
> > Why is the installation of minivend successfull, if you install minivend
> > as the user root and use the chown command to set the right user and
> > group name?
> 
>   I can't answer your question directly but I can tell how I do it. :)
> As of Minivend 4.02 and FreeBSD 3.1
> 
> I think this is what works for me to install Minivend:
> 
> As root:
>  perl Makefile.PL
>  make
>  make test
> 
> as mvend:
>  make install PREFIX=/usr/local
>  /usr/local/mvend/bin/minivend --stop
>  /usr/local/mvend/bin/minivend --start
> 
> Of course, 'mvend' is my minivend user, and /usr/local/mvend is where
> I want to install the software.
> 
> If permissions and installations work differently on FreeBSD than
> elsewhere,
> I'm interested to know why, too. :)

Mark,

this is exactly the same way like my way to install MV. It seems to me,
FreeBSD has a strongly restrictions of all resource for a normal user.
It seems to me, the restrictions of the FreeBSD resources is bigger than
the restrictions of any Linux distributions. Maybe this is the
difference? 

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