Gert Koefoed Andersen wrote to Alan Ianson:

GKA>  AI>After ./configure run "make >mbsebuild.log
2>&1" If I got that right
GKA>  AI>it'll create mbsebuild.log including warning and errors. Then post 
the
GKA>  AI>parts that are giving you problems and maybe someone will be able to
GKA>  AI>help.
GKA> 
GKA> I will see on try this if I can getting it to work, but what the 
istallion
GKA> site said is too wrong on using tar xfvj as user mbse from other path 
GKA> place of mbsebbs-o.* as mbse only can use it from its own directory.

I just ran "tar xfvj /opt/mbse/mbsebbs-cvs.tar.bz2" in /tmp and it unpacked
the nightly tarball in /tmp/mbsebbs. Sounds like you already have an mbsebbs
directory in there? Maybe delete it and start from scratch.
 
GKA>  GKA>> Then is the instruction on the html site not good as
if you have 
GKA>  GKA>> mbesebbs laying other places than in /opt/mbse can tar xfvj 
GKA> ........
GKA>  GKA>> run it and unpacking specially if it put there by another user. 
and
GKA>  GKA>> if it is root do it never working.

I always build and run mbse as user mbse. Only make install should be run
as root. You also need to be root to run the ./SETUP.sh before you build
MBSE for thew first time. Aside from that I always run the BBS as mbse.

If you were root when you unpacked the tarball and ran ./SETUP.sh the first
time you installed just delete that directory and unpack the tarball again
logged in as mbse and take it from the top. ./configure, make, su to root,
make install, exit back to mbse and if mbtask isn't running already run
"/etc/init.d/mbsebbs start" (assuming your init scripts are there, gentoo
may be different from debian).

GKA>  AI>I would stick to using mbse:bbs and the default /opt/mbse location at 
GKA>  AI>least until you get it running and can see how things work. Then you 
GKA>  AI>can tweak it further if needed.

Something isn't right I would say.. :) You already have user mbse and group
bbs there right?

You can log in as user mbse and unpack the tarball, run ./configure and
make? If so run "make >mbsebuild.log 2>&1" and report
any problems.

If that is all successful su to root, "export LOGNAME=mbse", make install,
exit back to mbse and all should be ready to go.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

... Good judgement comes from experience which comes from poor judgement

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