He is up and running. Will suggest he run the server as another user other than root. John ----- Forwarded message from William Claps <wclaps at northport.k12.ny.us> ----- > Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 16:13:05 -0400 > From: "William Claps" <wclaps at northport.k12.ny.us> > To: "'John R. Dennison'" <jrd at gerdesas.com> > Subject: RE: [netrek-dev] FW: Support Request > > Success!!! > > However, some interesting things happened that may prove useful the next > time an idiot like me contacts you for help. First, when I finished > compiling from source as you told me, it seems that apt did not remove the > old installation and there was a big mess. No problem, I fixed that. Once I > was finished redoing everything, I went to start the daemon but did not > issue the sudo command. Since you probably work as root configuring a > CentOS box, this would not be a problem. However, in Ubuntu there is no > root unless you create one. So....I believe that this prevented the > creation of the "players" file and therefore prevent me from creating a new > user. What do you think? Anyway....Problem solved...I'm listening to > Shatner as I type this message. > > Thanks John. Let me know if I can return the favor one day. > > Bill > > -----Original Message----- > From: John R. Dennison [mailto:jrd at gerdesas.com] > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2008 1:35 PM > To: William Claps > Subject: Re: [netrek-dev] FW: Support Request > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:40:54AM -0400, William Claps wrote: > > Wow John. I have never received such complete instructions before. > > Thank you for all of your time and effort. > > Many years of providing support :) > > And you are more than welcome. > > > Darcs installed without a hitch. I used it to download the directory > > to my home directory. I then moved to the Vanilla directory and ran > > "sh ./autogen.sh". And this is what I got: > > > > wclaps at AOIT-S213-Ubuntu:~/netrek-server/Vanilla$ sh ./autogen.sh > > ./autogen.sh: 10: aclocal: not found > > ./autogen.sh: 11: libtoolize: not found > > ./autogen.sh: 12: autoconf: not found > > ./autogen.sh: 13: autoconf: not found > > chmod: cannot access `tools/mktrekon': No such file or directory > > cd: 15: can't cd to tools/admin > > chmod: cannot access `debian/rules': No such file or directory > > chmod: cannot access `debian/postinst': No such file or directory > > chmod: cannot access `debian/postrm': No such file or directory > > chmod: cannot access `debian/netrek-server-vanilla.init': No such file > > or directory > > chmod: cannot access `tests/build': No such file or directory > > autogen.sh completed ok > > You do not have the the following tools installed: > > autoconf > automake > libtool > > I apologize - I had thought that Ubuntu installed them by > default, apparently not :( > > apt-get those, and then try rebuilding again and lets see what > happens. > > > It looks like a permissions error. But, I can't seem to figure out why. > > The files in question are built, I believe, during the > early execution phase of autogen.sh; the installation of > the three packages above should resolve the current issues. > > > > > John > > -- > "I'm sorry but our engineers do not have phones." > As stated by a Network Solutions Customer Service representative when asked > to be put through to an engineer. > > "My other computer is your windows box." > Ralf Hildebrandt <sxem> trying to play > sturgeon while it's under attack is apparently not fun. > ----- End forwarded message ----- -- "I'm sorry but our engineers do not have phones." As stated by a Network Solutions Customer Service representative when asked to be put through to an engineer. "My other computer is your windows box." Ralf Hildebrandt <sxem> trying to play sturgeon while it's under attack is apparently not fun. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mailman.us.netrek.org/pipermail/netrek-dev/attachments/20080619/43d77b67/attachment.pgp