[ic] Re: interchange-users digest, Vol 1 #804 - 59 msgs

[Tom Carroll]

>    "Tom Carroll" <egor@carrollweb.net> wrote (among other things):
>
>    When I ran makecat I told it my DocumentRoot is
>    /home/e-smith/files/ibays/dataware/html but when makecat finished it
copied
>    the interchange to the /var/www/html directory.  Is there something I
missed
>    or is this hard coded in the makecat script?
>
>    John Beima <jbeima@palb.com> wrote:
>
>    This is because you answered the questions that makecat has asked
>    you wrong. If you correctly answer every question, everything winds
>    up where it should.
>
> Bzzzt.  Sorry, John.
>
> This is a bug in makecat.
>
> I know, I reported it here about a month ago.  I reinstalled
> foundation three or four times, each time changing /var/www/html to
> the appropriate directory -- once changing it manually, another time
> hitting the up arrow and getting the correct /home/httpd/html, another
> time trying a completely unrelated directly that doesn't appear in
> httpd.conf at all.  In EVERY CASE the graphics were installed into
> /var/www/html -- the consensus on the list at that point is that
> makecat is using the default always and is broken.
>
> Tom, I'm sure you did the right thing and makecat used the default
> value instead.  It isn't your fault, makecat is broken.
>
> IMHO, this is a classic example of a bug that bites newbies and
> encourages them to ask questions here that have been asked a lot
> before.  If you do a search on the archives, you'll see that literally
> dozens of people have asked on this mailing list how to fix broken
> graphics and the two answers given are 1) make sure permissions are
> right and 2) make sure the graphics are in the right place.  If
> makecat took care of both of these, we'd be able to spend our time on
> more complex questions...
>
> <<I'd offer a patch, but makecat is awfully confusing to read.>>

Thanks Bob.  Maybe some day when I have some time I'll take a look at
makecat and correct it.

At least I think my sanity remains intact! :)

Tom Carroll
Dataware Computers