[dict-beta] Dictd 1.5.0 won't start

[Spauldo Da H. <sp...@kd...>]

Hello,

I'm not on the mailing list, so if this has been addressed before, I'm
sorry (didn't see a link to a FAQ or buglist)

I'm running dictd 1.5.0 on linux (slackware 7, 2.2.13 kernel).  After
compiling and installing, dictd will not run.  This is basicly what I
did:

make
make install (had to run a few times...  it doesn't create the bin and
sbin directories, or the man directories)
(installed databases in /opt/dict/share/databases/)
created /opt/dict/etc/dictd.conf with just a servername entry and
individual entries for the databases (extrapolated from man page and
examples in intall file)
tried to run /opt/dict/sbin/dictd -c /opt/dict/etc/dictd.conf -l min -L
/var/log/dictd.log --limit 10 &

and got: nothing.

It just went down to the next line, and that was it.  No process done
messages, nothing.

It does give me responses to dictd -h and dictd -V.  when run under gdb,
I only get "process exited normally".  I don't know enough about
programming to go any farther with gdb.

Is this a normal problem, or did I forget something?  This has me pretty
stumped...  I've used the debian packages before, and loved the
program...  very handy at times.

If anyone has any idea, I would greatly appreciate it.

spauldo

p.s.  since I'm not a list member, could you please send any replies to
sp...@kd...?  thanx