Re: [mv] 500 Internal Server Error

[Stefan Hornburg <racke@linuxia.de>]

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"Eric Olsson" <eric@yourplana.com> writes:

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> 
> From: "Victor Nolton" <ven@pragakhan.com>
> 
> > I wasn't aware that you were supposed to install interchange as root.
> 
> I don't think that either. But RPM's are only allowed to
> be installed as root. At least on my system.

That makes sense.

> 
> The tarball installed everything in a subdirectory of
> /home/user. I liked that better.
>

This is OK too. You have to find sth for starting it up
when the machine comes up.
 
> And all the default RPM installation directories are directories
> owned by root on most systems (/var/log, /usr/bin, /usr/local).

/usr/local should never be used by packaging systems.

> 
> If I understand the README.rpm correct, it should only
> be necessarry to change owner of /var/run/interchange
> to the user who runs Interchange.
> 
> I can't understand how the program can write to for 
> instance /var/log without the correct permissions, but...

This is easy, just grant MV/IC an subdirectory of /var/log which
is owned by the MV/IC user. That's a good idea anyway.

Ciao
        Racke


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