[freeside] Setup is impossible

[Demian]

PLEASE REMOVE.  I have tried numerous times to remove
myself but it's not working.  I am not interested in
ISP billing any longer.


--- Dennis Megarry <dennis at megarry.com> wrote:
> I have tried for the last 5 days to get freeside
> setup on my Salckware 7.1 box with no luck..
> 
> I have read and re-read the doc's and have found
> them the most incomplete I have ever seen!  I know
> this is opensource and ivan has worked his butt off
> to get this app out to us.  But someone, somewhere
> at sometime must have written something better for
> the installation docs..
> 
> My adventure began with the make...  (My apache is
> located in /var/lib/apache)..
> 
> First thing I noticed is that the install did not
> create a directory /usr/local/etc/freeside, and
> since the dir was not created, no files were place
> in them.  The config.html file leave alot of the
> configuration to the imagaination of the developers.
>  there is a file "fs-setup" located in one of the
> directories, but I can not find any reference to
> this file anywhere in the doc's.
> 
> I have not found anything that helps you setup the
> intial mysql database (a freeside.sql would help
> like you wouldn't believe!)
> 
> I keep getting errors after errors..
> 
> Such as:
> 
> Software error:
> Insecure dependency in unlink while running with -T
> switch at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/Date/Manip.pm
> line 34.
> 
> For help, please send mail to the webmaster
> (dennis at megarry.com), giving this error message and
> the time and date of the error. Content-type:
> text/html 
> 
> Software error:
> Can't get secrets: No such file or directory at
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/FS/UID.pm line 224.
> 
> For help, please send mail to the webmaster
> (dennis at megarry.com), giving this error message and
> the time and date of the error. 
> 
> 
> 
> I created the dir
> "/usr/local/etc/freeside/conf.DBI:mysql:freeside"
> and place the secrets file in there, still no good..
> 
> 
> 
> Doesn't someone have a directory listing of where
> these files should be place?
> 
> 
> 
> Dennis
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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