Re:A BREAKTHROUGH!: [mv] Still struggling with mv4 installation.

[Ed LaFrance <newmedia@newmediaems.com>]

******    message to minivend-users from Ed LaFrance <newmedia@newmediaems.com>     ******

Hello All -

I ***finally*** have Minivend 3.14-5 running in that install which has been 
giving me so much trouble.

I have done so many things to try and get it going, I'm not sure I can tell 
you definitively what the one thing was that made the difference (assuming 
it was just one thing).

Up until moments ago the server was complaining about Minivend.pid with 
permissions error messages.  I found a place in the docs where it was 
suggested to change socket file permissions to 666. I did this and 
restarted the server and it said:

"Couldn't open Minivend.pid. This shouldn't happen, tell somebody."

... and the catalog still didn't work, but at least I was getting "Were 
sorry, the Minivend server is unavailable..." instead of the less 
informative MS IE error "this page cannot be displayed."

I then applied:

chmod u+s cgi-bin/mycatname

to the cgi file for the catalog...and that did it!  I had done this before 
and it did not work, but maybe because it was not in combination with other 
things I have tried since!

So it was an issue of permissions and user ownership after all.

I want to thank Joachim, Bill, and everyone else on the list who provided 
there comments and ideas as to the nature of this problem.  You helped to 
solve the problem and gave me the strength to go on trying!  This certainly 
was the most problematic install I have done, but I will take the happy 
ending :-)

Yes, glutton for punishment that I am, I will now try again with 4.02!

Regards
- Ed L.

At 09:01 PM 3/25/00 +0100, you wrote:
>******    message to minivend-users from Hans-Joachim Leidinger 
><jojo@buchonline.net>     ******
>
>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?
>
>--
>-------------Hans-Joachim Leidinger---------------------
>
>
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