wmoff wrote: > 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)
Hmmm, that shouldn't be the case. Sounds like a bug. > > 2. I checked /etc/passwd, no user unless I created it myself See (1). > > 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. service slimserver start is equivalent to /etc/init.d/slimserver start. > > 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 "/". I must get round to installing a minimal FC6 server and trying the slimserver RPM (I tend to run trunk from svn so don't really touch the RPM). R. _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
