[rt-users] error on make install uid www??

[ahorn at deorth.org]

It's a default in the install process.

If you don't have a user named www, the process will die at that point and
your install will fail. I have faced this one several times since I tend
to call mey web user eithre apache or httpd. The assumption is linux
specific I think, although I don't recall whether the documentation
mentions this requirement.

In the top level Makefile you need to set WEB_USER to be the user that
your web server will run as (and this user must exist)

Cheers,

Al


On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Sullivan, Robert (HQP) wrote:

>Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:21:45 -0700
>From: "Sullivan, Robert (HQP)" <Robert.Sullivan at rhi.com>
>To: rt-users at lists.fsck.com
>Subject: [rt-users] error on make install uid www??
>
>Following is what I'm getting, I'm wondering where it is picking up the www
>at and why.
>
>chown -R root   //opt/rt3/share/html \
>                        //opt/rt3/local/html
>chgrp -R bin    //opt/rt3/share/html \
>                        //opt/rt3/local/html
># Make the web ui's data dir writable
>chmod 0770      //opt/rt3/var/mason_data \
>                //opt/rt3/var/session_data
>chown -R www    //opt/rt3/var/mason_data \
>                        //opt/rt3/var/session_data
>chown: unknown user id www
>make: *** [fixperms] Error 2
>