[freeside] setup problems

[ivan]

The /usr/local/etc/freeside directory should be writable by the freeside
user.

chown freeside /usr/local/etc/freeside
chmod u+w /usr/local/etc/freeside

On Tue, Jan 25, 2000 at 09:57:34AM +1100, colinc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm having trouble with freeside when attempting to create the tables in mysql
> with fs-setup. I have installed everything prior to this step.
> When i run fs-setup as the freeside user i get the following.
> ----------------------------------------------------
> server:/nosupport/fs/fs-1.2.2/bin$ fs-setup freeside
> 
> Enter the maximum username length: 8
> 
> 
> Freeside tracks the RADIUS attributes User-Name, Password and Framed-IP-Address
> for each user.  Enter any additional RADIUS attributes you need to track for
> each user, separated by whitespace.
> :
> 
> Can't open /usr/local/etc/freeside/dbdef.DBI:mysql:freeside: Permission denied at
> 
> /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FS/dbdef.pm line 87, <STDIN> chunk 2.
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> I've checked the /usr/local/etc/freeside  folder and there does not seem to be
> any file called dbdef.DBI................ as stated above.
> But there exist the dbdef.pm file in the /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.005/FS
> folder as above. The files in this same folder are owned by the root user,
> I changed the ownership to the freeside user and also changed the permissions but
> the same error message occurs each time i run fs-setup.
> 
> Hope someone out there can help me out. Any comments, suggestions and/or
> solutions would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks.
> 

-- 
_ivan