[mv] Permissions seem correct, but server is not available regardless [mv4]

["March Roseland" <march@uia.net>]

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Greetings!

    We've had two catalogs on 3.14 running just fine, but now we've
installed 4 on a different box (because it has ssl) and I can't seem to get
it to work.  I've made two catalogs straight from the demo, and neither
works.

First, the stats:

    NetBSD 1.4.2
    Perl 5.005
    Apache 1.3.9

    When I created the catalogs and tried to start minivend, neither could
find the required usertags listed at the bottom of the catalog.cfg file.  I
ended up having to comment them out to get minivend to at least think it was
configuring the catalogs.  This seemed odd to me; most minivend stuff is in
/usr/local/minivend; the catalogs are in /usr/local/minivend/catalogs.  For
example, /usr/local/minivend/catalogs/simple.  the usertags directory
started out in /usr/local/minivend, and I've tried it in
/usr/local/minivend/catalogs and in /usr/local/minivend/catalogs/simple.  In
none of those three locations could minivend find the usertags when
configuring.  I tried editing the catalog.cfg to use various paths to them,
just in case, but that didn't work either.  In the mail archives I found a
reference to the problem, but the only solutions given were really an
explanation: minivend can't find the usertags.  That I'd figured out -- but
how can I make it find them?

    So, at present, all the required usertags at the bottom of the
catalog.cfg are commented out.  However, the bigger problem is that I cannot
persuade the thing to stop giving me the 'We're sorry, but the minivend
server is unavailable' message.  I have read through the documentation and
archives, and tried everything I found, made sure that all the permissions
matched what's there, tried chmod-ing the socket to 666, etc, but nothing
works.  Has anyone any ideas at all on what might cause this?  Anything more
that I can try?  Has anyone run into this problem before, and solved it?
I'd deeply appreciate any assistance anyone might be able to offer.  If you
need more information on anything, please ask.  There don't seem to be any
hints in the error.log either.  It only has recorded the same errors I saw
on screen -- that it can't find the usertags.

Many thanks,

March Roseland

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