Re: Getting the minivend server to run on Unix.

[Frank Miedreich <miedreich@acm.org>]

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>******    message to minivend-users from Ryan Hertz <rhertz@gyb.baits.com>
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>Ben, if you are unable to expand the tar.gz'd file from your web site
>chances are you won't be able to run the minivend daemon.  (It requires
>someone w/ root (administrative) access to set up)  I would familiarize
>myself with the documentation and then consult your ISP.
>
>At 07:03 PM 3/26/99 , Ben Hess wrote:
>>******    message to minivend-users from "Ben Hess" <benhess@san.rr.com>
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>>Can someone tell me how to get the minivend server to run on Unix?
>>
>>I downloaded minivend-latest.tar.gz into Windows 98 and extracted it.  I
>>FTP'd the entire directory to my web site which uses Unix.  What is the next
>>step to get the Minivend server to run?
>>

You definitely do not need root access to set up minivend. You would need
root access to create a new user for minivend, from then on normal user
permissions are quite sufficient. Many installation problems reported on
the list come from people who installed parts of minivend running as root,
and then had problems with their permissions.

As to the installation itself, transferring the minivend dir tree to your
unix machine may introduce many problems. Transfer the .tar.gz file to the
unix machine and then do
gunzip minivend*.tar.gz
tar -xf minivend*.tar

This will produce a directory where you will find instruction what to do next.

Frank

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Frank Miedreich
Max-Planck-Institut fuer psychologische Forschung


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