[Dxspider-support] ubuntu 11.04 server installation assistance

[Dirk Koopman]

On 14/07/11 15:55, Bob Nielsen wrote:
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> On Jul 14, 2011, at 6:26 AM, Dirk Koopman wrote:
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>> On 14/07/11 11:54, Bob Nielsen wrote:
>>> The normal installation method is to create the sysop user with its standard home directory of /home/sysop and running the git installation from that directory, creating a spider subdirectory and symbolically linking that to /sysop.  This avoids the issue of trying to install in a non-empty directory.
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>> The deliberate error (just to check that I'm still paying attention, I'm sure :-) is that /home/sysop/spider is linked to /spider, not /sysop.
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>> As in: ln -s /home/sysop/spider /
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>> Dirk
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> Fortunately that one wouldn't work, since / is already existent and a symlink cannot overwrite it..
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rm /spider
and then try my version...