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Re: Linux & Misterhouse question



On Saturday 03 November 2001 23:59 pm, Robin Edwards wrote:
> Folks,
> 	Having managed to get Misterhouse working under W98 I've
> decided to move on.  I've installed Mandrake so now I'm back to asking
for
> help, this time more basic I suspect.  At least once I get thru this
bit
> all my config hopefully will work.  I have a couple of basic questions
that
> are probably Linux rather than mh related.... can somebody help please
....
>
> 1: How do I get mh started as a task that runs not attached to a
terminal
> session?

something like ./mh >&1 or something like that. Also check out the
recent MH
mailing list archive for a series of scripts and instructions on how to
start
mh when the PC boots.

> 2: Why is it that I can only get mh to run from root? .... I've
installed
> it in /usr/local/misterhouse ....  from the tar....gz file

Pass. I run mine as a non privelidged user no problem, though I am on a
slightly older version. There was discusion about this on the MH list
recently, but I only skimmed the mails, so don't know if that is what they
were discussing properly,

> 3: I get an error about DB_File.pm not being available .... well Idid
until
> just now an for no reason it stopped coming out.

You need to install DB_File from CPAN, search,cpan.org will get you
started.

> 4: I cant get to it from localhost:8080 .... I get an html error about
ia2
> ... I can see the directory structure for ia2 in /web .... looks
similar to
> the version under windows.

Dunno really without knowing what error message.

Have you joined the NH mailing list? You'd get much better and concise
answers than my rambleing :-) Feel free to mail me off list with the more
Linux/Perl specific stuff.

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Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@xxxxxxx>
Chief Operations Officer
Football Networks Ltd
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