New to MiniVend, Looking for some direction

["Brett Hansen" <brett@annis.com>]

Hello,

I'm new to MiniVend.  I've spent about a day and a half trying to configure
MiniVend and have run into many problems, but have been able to solve them
by searching the mailing list archive.  I now have some issues that I can't
seem to find answers to.  I'm hoping someone out there can direct me in the
right direction.

My main issue is that I can't seem to get the admin program running.  I've
got the simple catalog running I can shop, but now I need to administer the
data base and change the items within the data base.  I understand that this
is done with the mv_admin.  Is this correct?  I've also remember reading
something about MiniMate.  Now I can't seem to find where I read about
MiniMate.  MiniMate is admin program like mv_admin, right?  The problem I'm
having with mv_admin is that when I type my url:
http://develop.icsc.org/simple:7786/mv_admin a message on the web browser
pops up that says:

"The document contained no data.  Try again later, or contact the servers
administrator."

The error.log shows an error:

- - - [16/August/1999:08:30:52 -0400] - - MiniVend V3.14
- - - [16/August/1999:08:30:52 -0400] - - Config '_mv_admin' at server
startup
- - - [16/August/1999:08:30:52 -0400] - - Config 'simple' at server startup
- - - [16/August/1999:08:30:53 -0400] - - START server (19999) (INET and
UNIX)
- - - [16/August/1999:08:30:53 -0400] - - Accepting connections from
localhost|127\.0\.0\.1
kitt.annis.com - minivend [16/August/1999:08:36:21 -0400] _mv_admin
/mv_admin Runtime error: Could not open 'etc/session.lock': Permission
denied


I'm running minivend at nobody, just like our apache web server.  The
MiniVend root is located at /net/mvend
I've changed the perms on /net to 777 and /net/mvend to 777 and
/net/mvend/etc to 777 and this error message still comes up and I still
can't get the mv_admin to run.

Here is the begging my catalog.cfg file

# Define the site-specific information
#
Variable    SERVER_NAME     develop.icsc.org
Variable    CGI_URL         /cgi-bin/simple
Variable    SECURE_SERVER   http://develop.icsc.org
Variable    ORDERS_TO       brett@annis.com
Variable    IMAGE_DIR       /simple/images
Variable    DOCROOT         /net/netsitedocs/testicsc
Variable    SAMPLEHTML      /net/netsitedocs/testicsc/simple
Variable    SAMPLEURL       http://develop.icsc.org/simple

Variable    COMPANY         Copy Center
Variable    ADDRESS         123 Any St.
Variable    CITY            Anytown, USA 00000
Variable    PHONE           (555) 555-5555
Variable    TOLLFREE        (888) 555-5555
Variable    FAX             (555) 555-5556
Variable    LOGO            artstore.gif
Variable    SMLOGO          artsmall.gif
Variable    HEADERBG        BGCOLOR=#00F0F0
Variable    TABLEFG         BGCOLOR=#EEEEEE
Variable    HEADERTEXT      #000000
Variable    BARBG           #00F0F0
Variable    BARTEXT         #FF0000
Variable    BGIMAGE         blue_pap.gif
Variable    BGCOLOR         #FFFFFF
Variable    ENCRYPTOR       none
Variable    TAXAREA         MI
Variable    TAXRATE         6
Variable    TAXSHIPPING     OH

## END SITE CONFIGURATION

# Used to enable order query security
Variable      MV_USERDB_ACL_TABLE  userdb
Variable      MV_USERDB_ACL_COLUMN acl

## Whether to NOT encrypt passwords
Variable      MV_NO_CRYPT



Can someone point me in the right direction?!  Any help would be
appreciated.


Brett Hansen
The Annis Group
Network Support Technician
email: brett@annis.com
Work: (248) 395-0001 x227