Recompile with --prefix=wherever_you_want_it_to_go and probably
--with-etcdir=????
./configure --help will give you all the options.
Michael Hulet
Network System Administrator
ITTC, University of Kansas
On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Krider, David wrote:
> I hope this is the right place to ask this question. I don't have access to
> news, so this is my only hope.
>
> I have gotten ssh-2.0.13 installed on my AIX 4.3.2, thanks to a patch I
> happened to notice on the web site. I have gotten it working, and even doing
> host-based authentication, which is my ultimate goal.
>
> However, I don't want a /usr/local. I want each of my programs in their own
> directory on apps, for instance /apps/ssh. What I notice is that when I try
> to move /usr/local over to /apps/ssh (keeping all permissions and links
> intact), for some reason, ssh-signer will commence to fail. When I try to
> log into the same machine that I had been logging into before the move, I
> get this:
>
> root@pdmux001(666):# ssh -v pdmux003
> Development-time debugging not compiled in.
> To enable, configure with --enable-debug and recompile.
> debug: hostname is 'pdmux003'.
> debug: Unable to open //.ssh2/ssh2_config
> Development-time debugging not compiled in.
> To enable, configure with --enable-debug and recompile.
> debug: connecting to pdmux003...
> debug: entering event loop
> debug: ssh_client_wrap: creating transport protocol
> debug: ssh_client_wrap: creating userauth protocol
> debug: Host key found from the database.
> debug: Ssh2AuthHostBasedClient/authc-hostbased.c:329: Child: Execing
> ssh-signer...(path: ssh-signer2)
>
> And it will sit there until I hit ^c. Even if I move the directory structure
> back to /usr/local, it will still fail. I have to do a new "make install"
> from the make directory to get it working again.
>
> I am going NUTS! When I do a diff between /usr/local and my copy, I get NO
> differences. What's going on here? Is there something hard coded to expect
> /usr/local? What can I do to get ssh moved to where I need it to live?
>
> Thank you in advance for any suggestions
> dk
> David Krider
> Product Data Management Administrator, Arvin Industries
> Acts 17:28 - For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.
>
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