Re: [Oorexx-devel] rxapid for different Linux distributions

[Rainer T. <ta...@ta...>]

Hello,
Mark Miesfeld wrote:
> All,
>
> The Fedora Core 10, 64-bit rpm, worked fine on SuSE 11.  Since David
> built a Fedora Core 11 rpm, I went to test that on Fedora 10 and SuSE
> to minimize the number of different rpms we needed.
>
> The Fedora 11 rpm worked fine on Fedora 10.  But, when I tested it on
> SuSE 11, the install hung right after installing rxapid.  Everything
> got installed and rxapi was started.  It turns out that
> /etc/init.d/rxapid start hangs, on SuSE.  I built a Fedora 10 64-bit
> rpm, and it also hung on SuSE.  This used to work, so I think it has
> something to do with switching to nobody.
>
>   
I have a similar problem on AIX 6.1. If rxapi is running under nobody 
then rexx hangs.
I have an open call with IBM to find out why this happens. I can not 
duplicate this on  AIX 5.2 / 5.3.
This is the reason why I have disabled the nobody switch for AIX...
> I had already hacked rxapid several times to get it to work on Debian
> and SuSE.  The change needed to get it to work on SuSE, now, looked to
> me like it would break on Debian.  So, I just built the SuSE 11 64-bit
> rpm with a rxapid that worked.
>
> SuSE has its own LSB compliant init script conventions, with SuSE
> specific quirks.  Very similar to Debian.  I think for the next
> release and going forward we should try writing a LSB compliant rxapid
> script and see if it works on all the distributions we support.  If it
> doesn't, then we probably need to write several different rxapid
> scripts, specific for each distribution.
>
> By the way, I don't have a 32-bit SuSE 11 installation, so I couldn't
> test that version.  My suspicion is that none of the current 4.0.0
> release rpms will work on 32-bit SuSE 11.  If a user reports it as a
> problem, I'll put 32-bit SuSE 11 on a partition and build a rpm.  Just
> didn't want to do an install if it is not needed.
>
> --
> Mark Miesfeld
>   
Bye
  Rainer
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