Re: [webmin-l] Virtualmin Install Scripts Error

[Jaron P. <jpa...@su...>]

Jamie Cameron wrote:

>On 21/Mar/2008 15:27 Jaron Parsons wrote ..
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>>Jamie Cameron wrote:
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>>>On 21/Mar/2008 13:53 Jaron Parsons wrote ..
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>>>>Jamie Cameron wrote:
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>>>>>On 21/Mar/2008 13:23 Jaron Parsons wrote ..
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>>>>>>When I click to install, it downloads the file, and then gives a message 
>>>>>>"Failed to extract source : Uncompression failed : "
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>>>>>>any ideas?
>>>>>>miniserv.error contains this message each time i run the script "Badly 
>>>>>>placed ()'s."
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>>>>>Do you have the tar and gunzip commands on your system?
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>>>>>If so, which OS are you running there? I suspect that the error
>>>>>about () is related, and may be caused by some problem with the
>>>>>shell command Virtualmin is trying to run.
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>>>>> - Jamie
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>>>>Yes, I do have tar and gunzip.  I am running FreeBSD 6.2-stable
>>>>If you can tell me the command it is trying to run, or where to find 
>>>>that part of the code, I can try it from the shell myself and see if i 
>>>>can re-create if necessary.
>>>>Thanks
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>>>The command is something like :
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>>>(cd /tmp/something && (gunzip -c /path/to/script.tar.gz | tar xf -))
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>>>all run as the domain owner's user.
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>>>By the way, what shell does this user have set? On Linux Virtualmin
>>>forces all these commands to be run using /bin/sh with the -s flag to
>>>the su command, but sadly that isn't available on FreeBSD :-( So if 
>>>the user has tcsh or something funny as the shell, complex commands
>>>like that may break.
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>>> - Jamie
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>>ahh.. root is set to use tcsh.
>>is there are work around?
>>I usually accomplish the same as the commadn above with " tar -zxvf 
>>/path/to/file.tar.gz "
>>After changing to the directory of course.
>>Jaron
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>Root's shell doesn't really matter here - it is the domain owner's 
>shell that matters. Can you change that to sh or bash ?
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> - Jamie
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ahhh.. ok that worked... I changed that user to /bin/sh and all worked fine
thanks for the help!
Jaron