[rt-users] Notes and caveats for RT2 alpha install

[Jesse]

for the record, if you're messing about with RT2,
you should probably be on rt-devel. ;)

I've fixed the mysqladmin reload problem in what will be .42. thanks.

I've also got a fix for the DBD::foo check, though it requires you to
specify things on the commandline. I'll probably add a makefile
rule to make this easier.

And I fixed root's password in the README :)

On Thu, Feb 22, 2001 at 05:45:42PM -0800, Karel P Kerezman wrote:
> After some emails volleyed back and forth across the net, Jesse helped
> me work out some minor issues with the install of the latest-greatest
> RT2 alpha. It seemed a good idea to pass along the results of our
> collaborative tinkering:
> 
> The README instructs you to run a perl script to check for required
> modules. There's one module it can't really check for, however, and
> that's the DBD::mysql (or oracle or...) perl module. Make sure you have
> that installed before you get started on RT2. (It bit me because I was
> testing the install on a box that hadn't already had a copy of RT 1.x on
> it...)
> 
> Some of you gurus may already have known this, but I sure didn't: Don't
> use the @ symbol as part of a MySQL password. It does strange things.
> Nuff said.
> 
> Speaking of the main RT Makefile, if you run RH7 you probably want to
> set the WEB_USER and WEB_GROUP to 'apache'.
> 
> One of the required modules depends upon MLDBM. The 'make test' may fail
> in CPAN, which in my case meant going into the ~/.cpan/build/MLDBM-2.00
> directory and doing 'make install'. Life went on nicely after that.
> 
> Restarting MySQL between failed install attempts may be handy... it
> certainly fixed the last hurdle I couldn't jump over in my race to the
> finish. (It has something to do with that password thing I mentioned
> earlier.) In this case, 'mysqladmin reload' was the magic key.
> 
> Despite what the README says, the stock 'root' account password isn't
> wordpass. It's... well, just 'password.' Obviously, "not changing this
> is a SECURITY risk."
> 
> Now I'm off to see if I can figure my way around the new system. (First
> lesson... how to add a user with godlike powers that isn't "root"...)
> 
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