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

[Jesse Vincent]

On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:29:40AM -0700, ahorn at deorth.org wrote:
> 
> 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.

At some point, we need to pick a default. It's our intent that the
defaults should be correct for as many people as possible. ;)
> 
> 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)

You don't want to alter the makefile by hand. Instead, instruct the
configure script to use the correct web user with --with-web-user=<uid> 
and --with-web-group=<gid>


> 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
> >
> 
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