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  • From: christos AT zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas)
  • To: FreeTDS Development Group <freetds AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [freetds] Configure FreeTDS as non-root
  • Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:44:01 -0500

On Nov 26, 12:29pm, Mark.Malyj AT gdit.com ("Malyj, Mark") wrote:
-- Subject: [freetds] Configure FreeTDS as non-root

| I am a Windows developer, and am new to Unix. I am trying to "configure"
| FreeTDS as a non-root user on Solaris 8 Sparc. I was successful with a
| non-root account on my development Solaris 8 i386 server, but on the
| production Sparc server, I have lower rights, and am not allowed to have
| more.
|
| I am getting errors running "configure" in this low rights environment.
| Could you help?
|
| I am using freetds-current.tgz dated 11-Nov-2008 09:01. When I run:
| $ ./configure --with-tdsver=8.0 --prefix=/home/marko/freetds
|
| it eventually bombs out with the errors:
| config.status: executing depfiles commands
| sort: getexecname() failed
| Broken Pipe
| sort: getexecname() failed
|
| More info - when I googled this error (for example
| http://forums.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=5092096), it seems that this
| error could be caused by a missing /proc directory. I verified that it
| is not listed when I run "ls -l /proc".
|
| I tried to fix this. I verified that /proc is listed in my /etc/vfstab
| file as:
| /proc - /proc proc - no -
|
| So then I did:
| $ mkdir /proc
|
| Then I tried to mount this /proc. But "mount" was not in my PATH. I
| found several "mount" commands, the best one seemed to be in
| /usr/lib/fs/proc. But the best I could do was:
| $ /usr/lib/fs/proc/mount proc /proc
| which gave me the error:
| mount: not super user


Looks like sort is broken if it cannot find its execname from /proc.
Contact your system administrator and tell him that sort does not work.
There is nothing you can do...

christos




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