[ic] Newbie question about makecat and permissions

Tom Carroll interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
Fri Dec 21 02:50:00 2001


> So, I installed IC 4.8.3 from the RPM as root and all went well.
>
> When I use makecat as root it goes through it without any problems but
> when I try to access the demo I get a "We're sorry the Interchange server
> is unavailable..." message.
>
> If I try to use makecat as interch or a regular user it goes through the
> process until the very end when it says "Couldn't copy interchange.cfg:
> Permission denied".
>
> I didn't touch the permissions from the install.
>
> I have tried running makecat from /usr/lib/interchange where everything is
> root:root and from /usr/local/lib/interchange where everything is
> interch:interch.
>
>
> The permissions in question:
>
> in /usr/lib:
>
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Dec 20 21:07 interchange.cfg ->
> /etc/interchange.cfg
>
> -rw-rw----    1 interch  interch      3502 Dec 20 21:22 interchange.cfg
>
>
>
> Advice, suggestions? What am I missing?
>
> It's running Red Hat 7 and perl 5.6 and apache 1.3.17

Do a search on the forums page for "We're sorry",  and should find the
answer you seek.

Tom Carroll
Dataware Computers