[ic] ./configure problems?

Grant emailgrant123b at yahoo.com
Tue Jun 22 21:53:21 EDT 2004


--- Daniel Davenport <ddavenport at newagedigital.com>
wrote:
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org
> >
> [mailto:interchange-users-bounces at icdevgroup.org]On
> Behalf Of Grant
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 12:27 PM
> > To: interchange-users at icdevgroup.org
> > Subject: Re: [ic] ./configure problems?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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?
> 
> the second is the group that owns the file.  it's
> one of three groups of
> people whose access can normally be set...the
> "user", the "group", and
> "other" (everybody else).
> 
> anyway....
> 
> makecat should be run as root.  interchange
> shouldn't.
> the log file(s) should be writable by interch.  
> mode 644 should be fine in
> most cases, though if you're extremely paranoid you
> might be able to get
> away with 200.
> 
> chown interch.root *.log
> chmod a-wx,u+w *.log
> 
> of course, installing interchange correctly should
> have set the permissions
> for you; the fact that you have to do this stuff
> indicates to me that the
> install is incomplete, and should probably be
> redone.

Ok, thank you Daniel.  You mean I should run
./configure again?  Any idea why it would
stall/stop/freeze at a certain point during configure?

- Grant

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