Forum OpenACS Q&A: Re: install-oacs.sh help

I ran the latest install-ns.sh and I don't see the error appearing this time. It seems that I'm not able to connect to the cvs or git clone sites. I'm getting time-out messages. Is there a way you can check if the site are up and available? It might be the company firewall preventing me from accessing them.

bash ./install-oacs.sh build
------------------------ Settings ---------------------------------------

Installation Script for OpenACS
This script configures a (pre-installed) PostgreSQL installation for
OpenACS, installs OpenACS core, basic OpenACS packages, xowiki, xowf
and optionally dotlrn and generates a config file and startup files
(for Ubuntu and Fedora Core). The script assumes a pre-existing
NaviServer installation, installed e.g. via install-ns.sh
Tested on Ubuntu 12.04, 13.04 and Fedora Core 18
(c) 2013 Gustaf Neumann
LICENSE This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions;
For details see http://www.gnu.org/licenses.
SETTINGS OpenACS version oacs-5-8
OpenACS packages oacs-5-8
OpenACS directory /var/www/oacs-5-8
OpenACS service oacs-5-8
OpenACS user nsadmin
OpenACS groupce nsadmin
PostgreSQL directory /usr/
Database name oacs-5-8
Naviserver install directory /usr/local/ns
Naviserver src directory /usr/local/src/naviserver-4.99.6
Naviserver modules directory /usr/local/src/modules
Install DotLRN 0
With PostgresSQL 1
PostgresSQL user postgres
Make command make
Type command type -a

------------------------ Cleanup -----------------------------------------
------------------------ Check System ----------------------------
Loaded plugins: langpacks, product-id, subscription-manager
Package postgresql-server-9.2.7-1.el7.x86_64 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do
------------------------ Check Userids ----------------------------
grep nsadmin /etc/group => nsadmin:x:1002:
------------------------ Setup Database ----------------------------
Checking if oacs_user nsadmin exists in db.
Checking if db oacs-5-8 exists.
------------------------ Download OpenACS ----------------------------

cvs [checkout aborted]: reading from server: Connection timed out
install-oacs.sh: line 271: cd: /var/www/oacs-5-8/packages: No such file or directory

Okay, I used telnet and got the same output as you.

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~/Desktop$ telnet cvs.openacs.org 2401
Trying 137.208.116.32...
Connected to cvs.openacs.org.
Escape character is '^]'.

cvs [pserver aborted]: bad auth protocol start:
Connection closed by foreign host.
test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~/Desktop$

Below is the output of the download section of the install-aocs.sh:
------------------------ Download OpenACS ----------------------------
cvs [checkout aborted]: reading from server: Connection timed out
install-oacs.sh: line 234: cd: /var/www/oacs-5-8/packages: No such file or directory
cvs [checkout aborted]: reading from server: Connection timed out
cvs [checkout aborted]: reading from server: Connection timed out
Cloning into 'xowf'...
fatal: read error: Connection timed out
install-oacs.sh: line 244: cd: xowf: No such file or directory
fatal: Not a git repository (or any of the parent directories): .git
Writing /usr/local/ns/config-oacs-5-8.tcl
Writing /etc/init/oacs-5-8.conf

Hello,

Yeah I get the timeout message. I did the following for all
the environment variables. Most are empty besides path and home.

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test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVSINGNORE

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVSWRAPPPERS

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVSREAD

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVSUMASK

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVSROOT

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $EDITOR

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVSEDITOR

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $VISUAL

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $PATH
/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games
test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $HOME
/home/test-engr
test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $HOMEDRIVE

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVS_RSH

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVS_SERVER

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVS_PASSFILE

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVS_CLIENT_PORT

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVS_RCMD_PORT

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVS_CLIENT_LOG

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVS_SERVER_SLEEP

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $CVS_IGNORE_REMOTE_ROOT

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $COMSPEC

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $TMPDIR

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $TMP

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$ echo $TEMP

test-engr@testengr-Latitude-E6420:~$

Dear christopher,

in case we don't get CVS working on your side, i've added an additional as additional source for OpenACS the tar release. To get the OpenACS 5.8.1 release via tar file, get the newest version of install-oacs.sh from git and uncomment the following line:

oacs_tar_release=

When you rerun the script, the core of OpenACS will be installed via wget + tar file. By using this way, one has to install the application packages via "install from repository".

no, xowf is (a) optional and (b) once acs-core is installed, one can get it via "install from repositpory" directly from OpenACS.

The primary reason for having xowf in the script was that up to the release of OpenACS 5.8.1 getting it from git was the only solution.

all the best
-g

Guess, we should make the "install from tar-release" default, and let developer choose to use cvs/git as an option...