[LON-CAPA-dev] Re: SuSE installation

[Jim Maxka]

Doesn't  mysql start up running the  cd setup; install.pl 
That's where it asks for an admin password. 
This is after installing the mysql rpms.

About the SuSE features, my student assistant who is really into linux, 
told me that there is no kernel compiling package in the free verstion.  
He mentioned some other things.  I'll pick his brain tomorrow.
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Martin Siegert wrote:

>Hi Guy, Matthew,
>
>On Tue, Sep 07, 2004 at 02:01:46PM -0700, Martin Siegert wrote:
>
>  
>
>>I will now try to install LON-CAPA-1.2 on this machine. Stay tuned.
>>    
>>
>
>Ok. Here is the contents of the WARNINGS file after running UPDATE:
>
>**** ERROR **** CVS source file does not exist: ../../loncom/hosts.tab and neither does target: /home/httpd/lonTabs/hosts.tab
>**** ERROR **** CVS source file does not exist: ../../loncom/domain.tab and neither does target: /home/httpd/lonTabs/domain.tab
>**** ERROR **** httpd.conf has an overlapping definition of ScriptAlias (it is incorrectly set to "/srv/www/cgi-bin/").
>This conflicts with loncapa_apache.conf.
>**** ERROR **** httpd.conf has an overlapping definition of DocumentRoot (it is incorrectly set to "/srv/www/htdocs").
>This conflicts with loncapa_apache.conf.
>
>Updating access count storage.  This can take quite a while.
>Getting directory listing.
>Updating 0 files.  Each '.' represents 20 files processed.
>
>Completed!
>
>Updating yum and MySQL configuration files
>**** WARNING: gnuplot-3.7.1-5 does not appear to be installed.
>**** WARNING: LON-CAPA-systemperl does not appear to be installed.
>**** WARNING: perl-suidperl does not appear to be installed.
>**** WARNING: ^bzip2-libs does not appear to be installed.
>Checking to be sure the Network Time Protocol is running properly.
>For more information on ntpd please see http://www.ntp.org/
>ntp is not installed.
>**** ERROR **** Missing /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock
>
>
>The first two errors appear to be normal: those two files could not
>possibly exist since LON-CAPA had never been installed on that machine
>(I am wondering though, why this is marked as an ERROR rather than a
>"remark").
>
>The next two errors refer to SuSE's default location of the httpd
>files. I am assuming that editing /etc/httpd/httpd.conf and setting
>
>DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/html"
>
>and
>
>ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ "/home/httpd/cgi-bin/"
>
>should solve this - correct? anything else that must be changed in
>httpd.conf?
>
>The 4 WARNING's I believe can all be ignored:
>- gnuplot-4.0.0 is installed
>- LON-CAPA-systemperl should not be required
>- suidperl is part of perl
>- bzip2 libraries are in bzip2 (remark: bzip2-libs was not listed as a
>  prerequisite).
>
>I am wondering why I got those warnings: distprobe sets the distribution
>to fedora2 (and that seemed to work because the Fedora version of
>CHECKRPMS got installed). But there must be something else that sets
>the distro (I am assuming that those WARNINGs should only be issued on
>a RH7.3 system not on Fedora 2).
>
>The ntp error can be ignored as well (the ntp package is called xntp on
>SuSE; probably for historic reasons; arrgh).
>
>The final Mysql ERROR: when I ran UPDATE I did not have a mysqld running.
>I actually had not configured mysql in any way.
>Can you please remind me what I have to do to set up mysql properly?
>
>Thanks!
>
>Cheers,
>Martin
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