Re: [Packetfence-users] ARP Mode any documentations?

[Mark H. <mar...@nu...>]

Hi,

pf is used to connect to the MySQL database.

You need to change the password on the database to match the one in the config (in pf.conf I think).

I had to do the same when I installed it.

Cheers,

Mark

On 22 Feb 2011, at 03:24, "Ming Tao Ling" <aq...@sh...> wrote:

> I am trying to install and configure PacketFence on a CentOS 5.5
> Following the Admin Guide, I imported the DAG and PacketFence repositories. Groupinstalled the PacketFence package and all the dependencies. Ran the installer.pl, and configurator.pl, my LAN is pretty simple, no VLAN, so I chose the 5th template of ARP mode, After configurator.pl, I started the mysqld service, then started packetfence service, then following messages showed
> <code>Starting PacketFence...Checking configuration sanity...
> Uncaught exception from user code:
>         unable to connect to database: Access denied for user 'pf'@'localhost' (using password: YES) at /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/person.pm line 52
>  at /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/db.pm line 104
>         pf::db::db_connect() called at /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/db.pm line 127
>         pf::db::get_db_handle() called at /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/person.pm line 52
>         pf::person::person_db_prepare() called at /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/db.pm line 224
>         pf::db::db_query_execute('person', 'HASH(0x98f74d8)', 'person_exist_sql', 1) called at /usr/local/pf/lib/pf/person.pm line 79
>         pf::person::person_exist(1) called at /usr/local/pf/bin/pfcmd line 2593
>         main::sanity_check('pfdhcplistener', 'pfmon', 'pfdetect', 'httpd', 'snort') called at /usr/local/pf/bin/pfcmd line 1252
>         main::service() called at /usr/local/pf/bin/pfcmd line 189
>         main::__ANON__() called at /usr/local/pf/bin/pfcmd line 205
> 
> </code>
> 
> The admin guide focuses on VLAN configuration. Is there any ARP mode configuration guide available.
> Thanks.
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