#2 deb package - first time installation - adding user to erwin

Starting on a default install of the configuration
file, and modifying the log-, pid- and data-directories
to a local (in home-directory) based data-dir, it fails
to add the first user needed to set up erwin correctly,
and actually tries to read the global configuration,
not the configuration-file located in
the current directory. This fails due to permission-rights.

Excerpt follows:

Username: firstuser
can't open file /var/lib/erwin/users.db.lock:
Permission denied at /usr/share/perl5/MLDBM/Sync.pm
line 234, <STDIN> line 1.
(in cleanup) can't unlock
/var/lib/erwin/users.db.lock: Bad file descriptor at
/usr/share/perl5/MLDBM/Sync.pm line 258, <STDIN> line 1.

Modifying the config with hard paths does not seem to
do any difference.

[Alex Brasetvik]

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You should NOT edit config.defaults -- that is explicitly stated in the file.

Do you invoke erwin with -c conf.pl? It seems it's not reading the configuration file properly if it is still using defaults.

[Anonymous]

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Yup, not edited any of the 'default' config files just
copied the file directyl from
/usr/share/doc/erwin/erwin.conf.example, and rewrote the
DataDir into a local directory.

[Alex Brasetvik]

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Could you please post your configuration file and find out if it gets loaded at all? If it does, this might be a critical bug in the loading of configuration files.

[Anonymous]

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Found it!
The default read of the config file when adding the first
user REQUIRES the -c conf.pl statement, not as we've
discussed earlier reading the directorys conf.pl -file.

[Anonymous]

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Did a little bit more research on the config-file parsing.
Seems like the config-file must be explicitly mentioned
using the -c conf.pl statement, followed by the current
command, like this:

erwin -c conf.pl --adduser

Any other combinations, like for instance this:

erwin --adduser
erwin --adduser -c conf.pl

will fail, as it does not thinkg we give it a proper
configuration file as an argument. It might be that
--adduser wants a nickname as argument, I have not checked
into this.