Setup problem: find installed program cvs
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Hi,
I would appreciate your help with this problem.
When the setup program checks the File System requirements everything passes except:
find installed program cvs.
and:
write .
I have tried CVS at the command line and it working ok.
Thanks for your help.
My guess is that whatever user the web server runs as needs to be able to run CVS (this may require modifying that user's PATH to make sure CVS is in it). That being said, I'm running into the same problem, the user can run CVS, and I'm using CVS 1.11.5. I'm wondering if it's a problem with the CVS version?
As to "write .", that means you need to make sure the web server user has write access to the cvsmonitor directory. You need to change ownership or permissions on the cvsmonitor directory.
My guess is that whatever user the web server runs as needs to be able to run CVS (this may require modifying that user's PATH to make sure CVS is in it). That being said, I'm running into the same problem, the user can run CVS, and I'm using CVS 1.11.5. I'm wondering if it's a problem with the CVS version?
As to "write .", that means you need to make sure the web server user has write access to the cvsmonitor directory. You need to change ownership or permissions on the cvsmonitor directory.
Kyle has it correct.
I'll be looking into somehow making setup accept alternative locations for system commands and such it cannot find.
Adam - any idea why I would be getting the error message? As mentioned, the user the server runs as has no problems executing cvs from the command line, but I'm still getting the error message from setup.
An option to specify alternate locations would be VERY helpful.
Thanks - Kyle
Whoops - sorry. Just noticed your reply to my other posting (https://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=851614&forum_id=223564). Since CVS and whoami are both in the path of the user iPlanet runs as, I'm beginning to wonder if the problem is in how iPlanet executes CGI scripts. I'm checking with our iPlanet admins to find out if that's the case.
I have the same problem as Kyle with an apache server (1.3.15), my 'nobody' web server's user has CVS (v1.11.5) in its PATH but the setup failed to run CVS. Any suggestions?
fred.
I'm following up on kyle's attempt. The following change fixes the problem for me.
In MetaData.pm, in sub cvsversion, get @output like this:
my @output = system(cvslocation . ' -v');