I managed to solve it, as posted, but to answer your questions: 1. after installing (several times), I checked what users and groups were available, and could only find the group "slimserver" with no associated user (trying to create the user at this point is too late, btw - have to delete the group, uninstall the package, tidy up any unnecessary files etc. before trying again)
2. I checked /etc/passwd, no user unless I created it myself 3. I was logged in as my own user mostly (though towards the end I got fed up and logged in as root) - but I usually "su -". When trying to get things started: I was using "service slimserver start" to start it, rather than "/etc/init.d/slimserver start" - I didn't see the init.d thing mentioned in any of the FAQs, install guides etc. that I found today. 4. the /tmp logfile seems to get deleted when you uninstall everything, so I don't have a copy of it while it was failing; since I have it running now, I could uninstall it and use yum to install it again and see if the problem persists - I did check the log file several times and didn't see anything useful that I could discern, other than lots of perl errors complaining about null defaults (probably because it didn't have a home directory) and messages about it failing to create directories and files in "/". thanks, William -- wmoff ------------------------------------------------------------------------ wmoff's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=10833 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=33850 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
