[ic] ./configure problems?

New Media E.M.S. ic_users at newmediaems.com
Tue Jun 22 12:55:18 EDT 2004


At 09:26 AM 6/22/2004, you wrote:

>--- "New Media E.M.S." <ic_users at newmediaems.com>
>wrote:
> > At 09:28 PM 6/21/2004, you wrote:
> >
> > >--- Grant <emailgrant123b at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > > > I'm trying to install IC myself for the first
> > time.
> > > > I
> > > > downloaded the 5.2 tarball, untared it, then ran
> > > > ../configure which seemed to stall part-way
> > through.
> > > >
> > > > Then I did:
> > > >
> > > > perl -MCPAN -e 'install
> > > > Bundle::InterchangeKitchenSink'
> > > >
> > > > and when that completed I tried ./configure
> > again,
> > > > but
> > > > it seems to have stalled again.  The last three
> > > > lines
> > > > I see are:
> > > >
> > > > 6 tests run, all tests successful.
> > > >
> > > > Writing
> > > >
> > /usr/local/interchange/auto/Interchange/.packlist
> > > >
> > > > /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL force nocpaninstall=
> > > > final=/usr/local/interchange
> > > >
> > > > Is it "so far so good", or "return to go"?
> > > >
> > > > - Grant
> > >
> > >Now the furthest I can get in makecat gives me
> > >uninitialized value errors like the one described
> > >here:
> > >
> >
> >http://www.icdevgroup.org/i/dev/docfly.html?mv_arg=icfaq03%2e06
> > >
> > >Could this be happening because ./configure didn't
> > >complete properly?
> > >
> > >- Grant
> >
> > This is almost certainly permissions - are you
> > running makecat as root or
> > as the interchange user?  When installing catalogs
> > in multiple-group mode
> > (M), be root when installing interchange and running
> > makecat (but ownership
> > of interchange should be assigned to user interch
> > and the catalog user
> > should be a normal user) and you will not have this
> > problem.
> >
> > - Ed
>
>I'm running makecat as root, and setting it up for U
>mode.
>
>I think most of the makecat process completed.  It
>seemed to be trying to set up interchange.cfg right
>before I got the uninitialized value errors, so I
>copied one from the dist and tried to start IC as
>root:
>
>The Interchange server must not be run as root.
>
>and then as interch (my Interchange and Catalog user):
>
>Could not open error file
>'/usr/local/interchange/error.log':
>Permission denied
>
>Like you said, I think my permissions and maybe
>ownerships may be very wrong.  I haven't been paying
>attention to them at all throughout this process.
>
>My error log is this:
>
>-rw-r--r--
>
>and everything in /usr/local/interchange is root and
>root (ls -alF).  The first denotes ownership and the
>second is what?
>
>- Grant

Time to hit the books:

http://www.dartmouth.edu/~rc/help/faq/permissions.html


- Ed


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