Question
My server runs cpanel, which I think means that
RCS is automatically installed (cpanel uses it). However, twiki cannot find it and according to commands like 'which rcs' it doesn't exist. According to testenv RC doesn't exist at all.
I even tried building it but received an error during the make ('./conf.sh: testing compiler for plausibility ... ./conf.sh: The command 'gcc -Dhas_conf_h -I. -I. -g -O -o a.out a.c ' failed on a trivial program.')
I'm not well verse in compiling things so I might have screwed it up.
I am trying to diagnose this problem, and I'm not sure where to go next. I've read the various notes about this, but I'm not exactly sure how to proceed.
thanks!
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DaveHecker - 07 Jun 2005
Environment
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DaveHecker - 07 Jun 2005
Answer
i recommend contacting your hosting provider and find out where they have
RCS installed, that is, what is the full path to the
RCS executable?
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WillNorris - 07 Jun 2005
Thanks for your response. I am on a vps system running Virtuozzo and Cpanel on
RedHat. So, I am the 'admin' of my virtual server, with root access. However, even as root I can't find any evidence that
RCS is in there. I am told that cpanel uses
RCS for it's internal processes, and I've seen some commas and other notations that suggest that this is true.
With full access, can you possibly recommend a way that I might find the path?
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DaveHecker - 07 Jun 2005
find / -name rcs
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WillNorris - 07 Jun 2005
It ran for a while, then returned nothing.
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DaveHecker - 07 Jun 2005
then i suppose you will have to compile from source or find a pre-compiled binary for your platform
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WillNorris - 07 Jun 2005
It looks like you have root access to your virtual server only, e.g. each virtual server is running in a jailed environment. That means, you won't be able access files outside of the tree of your own virtual server.
Your options are to compile
RCS, or to use
RcsLite which emulates
RCS in Perl. This can be enabled in your
twiki/lib/TWiki.cfg
.
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PeterThoeny - 03 Jul 2005