installing odb 1.41 on SUSE linux New issue (actually a very old one)

[Andy Hilton]

John

To echo Lou's comments here - every Linux install of TL's I have ever done requires extensive changing of permissions before it will actually work properly ! They don't make the best of installers.....

Paul Mulroney has been a godsend in writing out how-to's for most of this stuff under Linux and I am sure he will pipe up again regarding permissions for the odb stuff if he has come across it but I would bet large that this is mostly what the issue will be at this point.....

In essence easy to fix, you just need to know exactly what to do :)

I have not used the odb stuff at all so cannot help I am afraid....

Andy

On May 17, 2012, at 10:21 PM, Lou Picciano wrote:

> John, 
> 
> 
> Have you checked privileges on that configuration file? The process starting the odb service will need read rights on it at minimum. 
> 
> 
> To further complicate life, it's not uncommon for a service in a given environment to change the execution environment at runtime, often for the express purpose of compartmentalizing (jailing) the process to further secure it. You'd really have to sort through the service definition to investigate that. 
> 
> 
> Though I was a big SuSE fan in an earlier life - it was our go-to Linux - I don't know what they're up to now; sorry I can't help you more specifically. 
> 
> 
> Lou Picciano 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Barklow" <jjb.ccsi at verizon.net> 
> To: "OmnisDev List - English" <omnisdev-en at lists.omnis-dev.com> 
> Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2012 9:36:39 PM 
> Subject: Re: installing odb 1.41 on SUSE linux New issue (actually a very old one) 
> 
> Hi Paul, 
> 
> Thanks for the response! However I did finally find how to get SUSE to install the odb. I then set up the config.xml file and got it working. Then I followed instructions on how to get the service to start on server startup and now it will not run any more. I now get the message (in messages.txt) 
> 
> Loading config ... failed to open config file 
> Failed to load user config file. Unable to proceed. 
> 
> I then downloaded the file again from TigerLogic ftp and deleted the previous directory and reinstalled it. But I still get the same message. 
> 
> I checked the list archives and find I had the same problem in 2005 but found no answer on the list. Some how I got it to run but I'm still not able to fix it now. 
> 
> So any help is greatly appreciated 
> 
> John Barklow 
> 
> 
> 
> On May 17, 2012, at 9:08 PM, Paul Mulroney wrote: 
> 
>> Hi John, 
>> 
>> On 18/05/2012, at 12:00 AM, omnisdev-en-request at lists.omnis-dev.com wrote: 
>> 
>>> I'm setting up a new openSUSE server and am trying to install odb to no avail. I downloaded the files 
>>> 
>>> Omnis-DataBridge-1.41-1.i386.rpm 
>>> obd.taz 
>>> odb.rpm 
>>> 
>>> but do not know how to use them to install the odb. I set up this server 2 years ago but forgot how to do it. The hard drive failed on the server so I'm reinstalling with the latest SUSE so any guidance will be truly appreciated. I tried looking at the archives and the internet in general but did not find how to proceed. 
>> 
>> 
>> The ".rpm" file is a 'Red-hat Package Manager' file. If you have the RPM system installed on SUSE, then you can do the following from the command prompt as the root user: 
>> 
>> rpm -i Omnis-DataBridge-1.41-1.i386.rpm 
>> 
>> If RPM isn't part of the SUSE setup, then you can use the ".taz" file instead. This is a compressed archive of the software, so you can use something like this from the command prompt to uncompress it: 
>> 
>> tar -xvf obd.taz 
>> 
>> There should be a script in there to setup the paths etc. I can't remember the name exactly, I think it's something like "odbset", you run it from the command prompt: 
>> 
>> ./odbset 
>> 
>> Finally, to start the databridge, you do the following from the command prompt: 
>> 
>> ./odbI386 start 
>> 
>> This is all a manual process. I wrote some scripts for Fedora to handle automatic startup and shutdown, but I don't know if they'll work for you. If you need further help, please let me know. 
>> 
>> Good luck! 
>> 
>> Regards, 
>> Paul. 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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