Is anyone running D2OL in REDHAT 8.0

[BIGGDOG]

I am running RedHat 8.0 and want to know if anyone is running the program sucsessfully in REDHAT 8.0

 

[GeoffS]

Yep! It was a piece of cake... no additional libraries needed to be installed or anything... ran right out of the box! Having problems?

Geoff

 

[BIGGDOG]

Well it did say there were some problems but I am not sure what they are. Also since I am running in windows as well I can not be sure it is currently running.

Can you help me.

 

[mastertech01]

I dont quite understand the last part about running windows and redhat, but when you do the install of D2OL it ALWAYS says that whether is works fine or not. I installed Mandrake many times with the same error message at the end of the install of D2OL and it always worked fine.

 

[BIGGDOG]

I am sorry for the mixed message. I ment to say in windows it runs in the task bar and I can see it working. In LINUX I do not think it is working. I need to log in as SU and try to get it to start up.

 

[GeoffS]

Yeah... I don't recall how I had it set up... whether or not it fired up on its own or not. As I recall, the client runs in a window at all times in Linux. When you start it up, does it run?

Geoff

 

[BIGGDOG]

No. I tried to start it and realized I did not have the proper rights to do it. So I logged in as SU and set the permissions and then I have to start it up manually. I may be doing something wrong and am looking for some insight as to what it may be.

 

[mastertech01]

I believe I had to manually start in Mandrake too. Once started just run it minimized in the task bar. There is no way to get it down any further than that unless you use a CLI version which I have not done personally.

 

[BIGGDOG]

Thank you sir. I am currently logged in as root and it seems to be working fine. If I get it to work any differently I will let you know.

 

[MereMortal]

Well, you really don't want to be logging in as root to do anything but admin work. There are a few ways to set things up, depending on how you want to run things.

1) If you want to run the java window, you should install D2OL into your home directory. You can then probably put something in your bash_profile (or approriate file for your shell type) to start it up when you log in; otherwise, start it manually. You can also run the controller with the CLI flag if you don't want to be bothered with a bulky GUI.

2) If you want it to start on reboot, and to run as a 'service', then you probably want to to run the controller in file based mode, and start it in rc.local.

 

[GeoffS]

On all my DC boxes I never ran in anything other than root :Q

Geoff

 

[MereMortal]

You can, of course, do that, but it's considered bad form to run as root on *nix systems. The safeguards that protect users from screwing up the OS are not in place, so you can more easily damage the installation. This is particularly bad for someone not used to administering the OS, but even seasoned veterans can (and will) forget what they are doing and make a mistake.

Having to become superuser each time an admin task is required may seem like a PITA, but it forces you to think about what you're doing. You can still screw up, but it's a little harder.