Hermann-Josef Beckers wrote on 17/08/2006 02:07:25 a.m.:

During "make install" chgrp fails with "invalid groupname" (Ungültiger Gruppenname); see line 8). Obviously line 7) is missing the "id -g hobbit" as in line 6). Whre do I add it?

Yours hjb

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1. Loading md5-data ... OK
2. touch /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg.bak
3. chmod g+w /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg.bak
4. mkdir -p /var/log/hobbit
5. chown hobbit /var/log/hobbit /home/hobbit/server /home/hobbit/server/* /home/hobbit/server/bin/* /home/hobbit/server/etc/* /home/hobbit/server/ext/* /home/hobbit/server/web/* /home/hobbit/server/www/gifs /home/hobbit/server/www/gifs/* /home/hobbit/server/www/menu /home/hobbit/server/www/menu/* /home/hobbit/server/www/help /home/hobbit/server/www/notes /home/hobbit/server/www/html /home/hobbit/server/www/wml /home/hobbit/data /home/hobbit/data/*
6. chgrp id -g hobbit /var/log/hobbit /home/hobbit/server /home/hobbit/server/* /home/hobbit/server/bin/* /home/hobbit/server/etc/* /home/hobbit/server/ext/* /home/hobbit/server/web/* /home/hobbit/server/www/gifs /home/hobbit/server/www/gifs/* /home/hobbit/server/www/menu /home/hobbit/server/www/menu/* /home/hobbit/server/www/help /home/hobbit/server/www/notes /home/hobbit/server/www/html /home/hobbit/server/www/wml /home/hobbit/data /home/hobbit/data/*
7. chgrp /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg.bak
8. --->>> chgrp: Ungültiger Gruppenname ,, /home/hobbit/server/etc/hobbit-nkview.cfg" make[1]: *** [install-cfg] Fehler 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/beckers/hobbit-4.2.0/hobbitd' make: *** [install-hobbitd] Fehler 2

I had the same issue. The definition of HTTPDGID= seems to be missing from the root Makefile (top source directory) after configure, so the chgrp on line 160 of hobbitd/Makefile fails.

The workaround I used was to edit hobbitd/Makefile and change ${HTTPDGID} to nobody (the group for my Apache user). I guess I could have also set the variable in the root Makefile!

My guess is that this is caused by pressing Enter to accept the default web user during configure, but I'll leave it up to Henrik to confirm and propose a more robust solution ;-)

HTH, Andy.

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