Re: [dict-beta] Starting the server???

[Aisha F. <ais...@ma...>]

Doh!
Like you suggested, my dictd.conf didn't have non-root rights.

Sorry I'm still kind of new to the Linux thing, so I make heaps of dumb
mistakes :-)

Thanks for the prompt and accurate reply,
Aisha



On Sunday, August 5, 2001, at 02:18  AM, Rik Faith wrote:

> On Sun  5 Aug 2001 02:16:57 +1200,
>    Aisha Fenton <ais...@ma...> wrote:
>> I am having some problems with running the dictd server.
>>
>> I have downloaded the source for dictd 1.5.5 from the website and
>> compiled and installed dictd fine.
>>
>> The problem is that when I run dictd, nothing happens. I don't get any
>> error
>> messages or anything.  But I when I look in my processes I don't see 
>> any
>> "dictd".
>>
>> When I use "dictd -t blah" it says
>>
>>> dictd (lst_iterate_arg): Internal error
>>>     list is null
>
> This means there are no databases, perhaps because it can't find the
> dictd.conf file, or because it can't read the database files.
>
>>> Aborting dictd...
>>> Aborted
>>
>> I think I have set the the conf file fine? I have
>>
>>> access {allow *}
>>> database jargon    { data "/usr/share/dict/dict-dbs/jargon.dict.dz"
>>> index "/usr/share/dict/dict-dbs/jargon.index" }
>>
>> I have the Jargon file mentioned above, in the right place.
>> And I have been running the server as root.
>
> The server gives up root.  Are the files readable by a non-root user?
>
>