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How long should installation take?
Just writing a quick message to ask how long the Links SQL2Final installation should take?

I have been waiting for several minutes now, and it doesn't appear anything is happening, no files being created, etc.

Is the install.dat file supposed to be uploaded in binary or text mode? I have the permissions for each file set to 755.

Thx.



Rob Bartlett
AAA Internet Publishing, Inc.
http://www.AAAInternet.com
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Rob:

For me, it takes about 15-20 seconds for it to start writting files. I upload install.cgi ascii and set permissions 755 (won't run if you don't!) but the data file, I just send binary and don't do anything...

Good luck!

dave

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I just tried running install.cgi from telnet and I got the following error message:

"GT::Tar (21098): Could not open /tmp/GTTemp78786033. Reason: No space left on de
vice at install.cgi line 560."

Am I going to have to create a new partition or something to make this work? Here is what the file system on the server looks like:

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 54410 54410 0 100% /
/dev/sda5 7925051 887862 6626329 12% /home
/dev/sda6 248847 224888 11109 95% /usr
/dev/sda7 155517 53409 94078 36% /usr/local
/dev/sda9 54410 4637 46964 9% /var



Rob Bartlett
AAA Internet Publishing, Inc.
http://www.AAAInternet.com
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Upload install.cgi in ASCII and install.dat in BINARY

Chmod install.cgi and execute it.

There should be a problem.

It normally takes about 2 seconds to unarchive for me.

Paul Wilson. Shocked
(Dont blame me if I'm wrong!)
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Thanks for the suggestion, but that is actually what I did. It appears that there must be some kind of partition problem on the server which isn't letting the file extract...

Rob Bartlett
AAA Internet Publishing, Inc.
http://www.AAAInternet.com
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Hi Rob,

Hmm, I'm going to have to look into this further. For now, edit install.cgi and look for:

@POSS_TMP_DIRS = ('/tmp', '/usr/tmp', ...

The program is trying to create a temp file in a directory where you don't have any space. Add '/var/tmp' before '/tmp' and give it a try.

You will need to modify GT::TempFile after the installation is done.

I'll look into fixing this..

Cheers,

Alex

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Thanks Alex, that was a really easy fix, I just had to know where to go to fix it. ;)

You said:

"You will need to modify GT::TempFile after the installation is done."

Where do I have to go exactly to do that?

Thx



Rob Bartlett
AAA Internet Publishing, Inc.
http://www.AAAInternet.com
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You'll find that in admin/GT/TempFile.pm.

Cheers,

Alex

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