[ic] ./configure problems?

[Stefan Hornburg]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 18:53:21 -0700 (PDT)
Grant <emailgrant123b at yahoo.com> wrote:

> --- 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?

strace can give you hints about that ...

	Racke

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