[ic] Still Clueless

[Frederick R. Matzen]

That might be good if I knew how (or possibly could) log in as root. Its not
my system so it's possible I cannot do that.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com
> [mailto:interchange-users-admin@interchange.redhat.com]On Behalf Of
> System Administrator
> Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:20 AM
> To: interchange-users@interchange.redhat.com
> Subject: Re: [ic] Still Clueless
>
>
> From the line;
>
> lsh107:~/interchange-4.8.1$ ./configure
>
> I would say, no you were not loged in as root. Install logged in
> as root, when the configure program states, "program can not run
> as root, select user to install interchange as:" enter the user
> name at that time that IC will be run under.
>
> After ./configure runs, log out of root and in as user you stated
> during install and then you can run the
> interchange/bin/interchange -r to start it.
>
>
> RS
>
> "Frederick R. Matzen" <fmatzen@home.com> wrote ..
> > I'm still not getting ./configure to work and I've the admin install the
> > BUNDLE::INTERCHANGE packet, I've installed everything I could
> find. I don't
> > LINUX and I don't know PERL. I've had the same error upon
> trying to install
> > 4.7 and 4.8.
> >
> > lsh107:~/interchange-4.8.1$ ./configure
> >
> >  Interchange Version 4.7.x Configuration
> >
> >  Copyright 1996-2001 Red Hat, Inc. <interchange@redhat.com>
> >
> >  Interchange was originally based on Vend 0.2 and 0.3
> >  Copyright 1995, 1996 Andrew M. Wilcox <awilcox@maine.com>
> >
> >  Distributed under the GNU General Public License.
> >  See the file LICENSE for license information.
> >
> > Found Perl 5.6.0 as /usr/bin/perl
> >
> > If you get a CPAN error, rerun the configuration and it should go away.
> >
> > opendir(./../..): Permission denied at /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.0/FindBin.pm
> > line
> > 143
> > Can't write uid file: Permission denied
> > make: *** No targets.  Stop.
> > make: *** No rule to make target `test'.  Stop.
> >
> > I am about to give up. I don't know what to ask the admin to do or what
> > to
> > do myself. I don't know if I'm logged in as ROOT or how to check. I also
> > don't know if the system is on REdHat 7 yet or how to check (without
> > actually asking that is).
> >
> > This will be my last request for help. If I don't get it form
> your replies
> > this time I give up and will use Agora.cgi :-(
> >
> > thanks! You've all been very kind to help a novice.
> >
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