Re: Redhat 6.0 E-Commerce Edition

[Kyle Hayes <kyle540@quicknet.net>]

On Thu, 26 Aug 1999, Craig Oettle wrote:

> I just loaded Red Hat 6.0 Ecommerce edition today and when I tried to
> install the MiniVend rpm from the console I got line after line of "user
> pbrown does not exist, using root instead".  It installed but would
> never start etc.  Kept getting permission denied errors.  Fooled with
> permissions for about an hour and each step of the way something new
> would crop up as an error so I dumped it and installed the
> minivend-latest.tar.gz and had it running in about ten minutes.
> I started out by creating a user minivend.  Then ran ./configure and
> chose /usr/local/mvend for vend root.  At the end where you create a
> catalog I told it minivend would be the catalog owner and just did the
> simple catalog to test with.  I did all this as root and when it started
> the server it started it as the minivend user.  Is there any drawback to
> installing this way?  Any pointers would be greatly appreciated.

I did it this way.  I had no problems as long as I wasn't trying to be
smarter than the install script :-)

MV is very reliant on correct permission settings.  This is not a flaw,
just a fact of this kind of service.  I don't know enough about RPM to see
if it might be a problem with the RPM file or if something else it wrong.

Best,
Kyle