RE: {bb} more problems running bb on fedora core 4 system

["Gene Beaird" <bgbeaird@sbcglobal.net>]

Phil,

I don't think I am getting them confused.  I have the server stuff in
/home/bbrother/bb1.9i-btf subdirectory while the client items were extracted
into the directory /home/bbrother/client subdirectory.  I even have a
softlink for /home/bbrother/bbro -> /home/bbrother/bb1.9i-btf, so either
way, it is tough to get them confused.  On the last attempt to get things to
work today, I extracted both in the /home/bbrother subdirectory, but the
server stuff extracted into bb1.9i-btf and the client is in its own
bbc1.9i-btf subdirectory.

I think I left everything as it was after the make error messages to see
what kind of replies I got from this list.  I will try continuing with the
bb server install tomorrow when I get a chance.  Thanks.

Gene Beaird


-----Original Message-----
From: owner-bb@bb4.com [mailto:owner-bb@bb4.com]On Behalf Of Philip
Clark
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 7:35 PM
To: bb@bb4.com
Subject: RE: {bb} more problems running bb on fedora core 4 system


On Thu, 2006-02-09 at 23:44, Gene Beaird wrote:
> Daniel,
>
> Thanks for the reply.  I have cooled down a bit from this afternoon, so I
> can reply now.  While you may be right on the client and server part, I
know
> I was at least trying to start the server part ($BBHOME/runbb.sh start).
> When I previously tried to start the app, it kept complaining about not
> being able to find some scripts, namely bb, bb-cpu.sh, bb-disk.sh,
> bb-msgs.sh, bb-procs.sh, and another, which I forget.  All of these it was
> looking for in $BBHOME/bin.  They weren't there.  I _did_, however, find
> these scripts in the client /bin directory after compiling and running
make
> install on the client part.  Not having any other recourse, I simply
copied
> those scripts from the client/bin directory to $BBHOME/bin directory and
> tried to restart the server app.  That is when I got the CAN'T CONNECT
TO...
> error.  So yeah, I was probably trying to start the server with the client
> scripts, but there weren't any server scripts to use.

What might be tripping you up is that $BBHOME needs to be different
for client and server. For example, in the server side runbb.sh:

  BBHOME="/usr/local/bb/bb1.9g-btf"

and in the client version of runbb.sh:

  BBHOME="/usr/local/bb/bbc1.9g-btf"


> There is something definitely wrong with the install.  I don't know if it
is
> the system, a new Fedora Core 4 system running on a new HP DL320, patched
as
> of last Thursday, or bb itself.
>
> I have since ripped everything out and started over again.  When I got to
> the 'make install' of the server app, I got the following errors:
>
> bbd.c:1115:warning: pointer targets in passing argument 3 of 'accept'
differ
> in signedness
> bbd.c:1154:8:warning: extra tokens at end of # endif directive
> bbd.c:1186:8:warning: extra tokens at end of # endif directive
>
> Note that line 1154 and 1186 both have something to do with Zombies.

Again, those are only warnings and can be ignored. They should not
prevent you from actually compiling. The ZOMBIE tags on those two
#endif preprocessor directives have no meaning for the compiler.
They are just tags to make the code easier to read and most C
compilers will ignore them silently. The latest (some would say
"bleeding-edge") version of GCC, however, is stricter in this
regard.

> After unsuccessfully searching for a solution to the last two errors, I
> packed my stuff and went home for the day.
>
> Thanks for the comments.  I have a friend who installed an earlier version
> without the client and server parts and he said it just worked. Don't know
> where my problem is here.

Some operating systems are easier than others. Redhat (and hence
Fedora) have a history of doing "non-standard" things which caused
problems. OTOH, the installation process quickly becomes almost
automatic and it's easy to forget that it once required more
effort.

Cheers, Phil.



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Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft and the
only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
(Wernher von Braun)

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