Esteemed monks,

Please excuse me if this is a little OT.

I have been trying to install Apache::Request from CPAN. It requires Apache::Test, when I try to build Apache::Test I get the following: 

 /usr/bin/make -j3 -- OK
Running make test
/usr/local/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib \
t/TEST -clean
*** setting ulimit to allow core files
ulimit -c unlimited; t/TEST -clean
APACHE_GROUP= APXS= APACHE_PORT= APACHE_USER= APACHE= \
/usr/local/bin/perl -Iblib/arch -Iblib/lib \
t/TEST -verbose=0
*** setting ulimit to allow core files
ulimit -c unlimited; t/TEST -verbose=0
*** root mode: changing the files ownership to 'nobody' (99:99)
*** su -m nobody -c '/usr/local/bin/perl -e "print -r q{/root/.cpan/bu
+ild/Apache-Test-1.05/t} &&  -w _ && -x _ ? q{OK} : q{NOK}"'

*** result: NOK
!!! You are running the test suite under user 'root'.
Apache cannot spawn child processes as 'root', therefore
we attempt to run the test suite with user 'nobody' (99:99).
The problem is that the path:
  /root/.cpan/build/Apache-Test-1.05/t
must be 'rwx' by user 'nobody', so Apache can read and write under tha
+t
path.

There several ways to resolve this issue. For example move
'/root/.cpan/build/Apache-Test-1.05/t' to '/tmp/' and repeat the 'make
+ test' phase.

You can test whether the location is good by running the following tes
+t:
  % su -m nobody -c '/usr/local/bin/perl -e "print -r q{/root/.cpan/bu
+ild/Apache-Test-1.05/t} &&  -w _ && -x _ ? q{OK} : q{NOK}"'


make: *** [run_tests] Error 9
  /usr/bin/make test -- NOT OK
Running make install
  make test had returned bad status, won't install without force

cpan>

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Now, yes, I am running the install under root. But I went and chmod'ed the directories and chown'ed them and to no availa it would seem.

Does anybody have any suggestions?

jdtoronto

In reply to Trouble installing Apache::Test as root. by jdtoronto

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