Re: [IBMiOSS] First error in getting Perzl stuff

[Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Aaron - thanks for the reply.

I'm not sure ibmichroot is the thing to do - maybe you can weigh in - 
this is meant only to install Ghostscript and then execute 1 piece of it 
from an RPGLE program.

I'm going this route because none of the binaries sites seem to have 
Ghostscript as they used to do - the UCLA one, the BULL one - all kind 
of dead.

I'm not going to be doing any development in PASE.

AND I'm on a pretty short time leash - far too long fighting with the 
problem of printing as we are trying to do. So a PDF to PCL conversion 
will likely take care of us, and Ghostscript is supposed to have that.

I'm going to go ahead with my limited authorization and see what happens 
- will report what happens, and cheer if it's all good.

Cheers
Vern

On 8/12/2016 1:34 PM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> ​A couple things:
>
> - I don't recall why Tony initially made setup2.sh, but I am fairly certain
> setup.sh in ibmiperzl project should have incorporated the changed from
> setup2.sh.
>
> - You should be using what's on bitbucket.  We need help migrating
> documentation out of YiPs so we can eventually sunset the YiPs page(I
> agree, it is confusing, as your experiencing).  If anyone would like to
> help with that it would be much appreciated.
>
> - ​The success of junk.sh leads me to believe it might have to do with the
> authority of your profile.  Also, while it is a pain to have authority
> issues, it's a good thing to bump into if it was meant to be in place,
> because it's proving the security is working.  The perzl.org rpms ~should~
> require you to have high authority because they will have potentially
> significant changes to other PASE processes on your system.  Specifically,
> think of PASE as having a primary library list named PATH that everyone
> shares (PATH is the name of an environment variable).  Then imagine
> somebody installing a new RPG *SRVPGM in a new library that has ~same-named
> exports~ as other RPG *SRVPGMs already in your library list.  This will
> obviously cause issues when a calling RPG program attempts to resolve RPG
> sub procedure calls.
>
> - Further to the above comment about security, one of the reasons the
> ibmichroot(n1) project was created was so you could be a *USER class user
> and still have full authority to install things in your chroot environment
> (they are also sometimes called "chroot jails").
>
> - If you want to stick with ibmiperzl** then I think you need to get a
> higher authority profile involved.  Let us know what authorities are needed
> so we can update the ibmiperzl readme (or even better, do a
> fork/pull-request with the change).
>
> **Opinion: I recommend using ibmichroot over ibmiperzl for most things
> because they have duplication of effort(n2), but ibmichroot has the
> additional feature of chroot.
>
> n1 - https://bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmichroot
> n2 -
> https://bitbucket.org/litmis/ibmiperzl/issues/2/ibmiperzl-vs-ibmichroot-duplication-of
>
> On final note, I know some will critique the various projects/sites
> mentioned here and say "what sort of a mess are you guys creating and why
> aren't you cleaning things up?"  And to that I'd say, I am sorry we have a
> mess and I ask for community support to help tidy things up.
>
> Aaron Bartell
> litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 12:42 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > Another thing - I see on the litmis ZIP file a setup.sh and wwwperzl.sh -
> > I see on a YIPS site that there's a setup2.sh and a new wwwperzl.sh
> >
> > So which should I be using? I hope I have the details right!
> >
> > Thanks again
> > Vern
> >
> > On 8/12/2016 11:10 AM, Aaron Bartell wrote:
> >
> > > First, are you running this from an SSH session (i.e putty from your
> > > laptop) or from CALL QP2TERM?
> > >
> > > Second, when I run into issues like this I try to eliminate possible
> > > issues
> > > (i.e. ownership) and incrementally build up to the issue.  Run both of the
> > > below commands and let us know if they both run successfully.
> > >
> > > $ echo "echo 'something'" >> junk.sh
> > > $ chmod +x junk.sh
> > >
> > >
> > > Aaron Bartell
> > > litmis.com - Services for open source on IBM i
> > >
> > >
> > > On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:47 AM, Vernon Hamberg <
> > > vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > Folks
> > > > I downloaded the ZIP from the litmis page on bitbucket - made the
> > > > download
> > > > directory in /QOpenSys - put contents of ZIP into it - CD's to it - and
> > > > did
> > > > this from the "instructions" on the litmis page -
> > > >
> > > > First I ran ls -l and got this -
> > > >
> > > > ls -l
> > > > total 22304
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0              1105 Jul 13 11:06 LICENSE
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0              4754 Jul 13 11:06 README.md
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0               192 Jul 13 11:06 ftpcompile.sh
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0           2408448 Jul 13 11:06 rpm.rte
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0              1676 Jul 13 11:06 setup.sh
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0            397520 Jul 13 11:06
> > > > wget-1.9.1-1.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0           7260160 Jul 13 11:06
> > > > www.oss4aix.org.deps.tar
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0            608761 Jul 13 11:06
> > > > www.oss4aix.org.site.dirs
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0               233 Jul 13 11:06 wwwclean.sh
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0            139066 Jul 13 11:06 wwwinstall.sh
> > > > -rwxrwxrwx    1 guest    0             12461 Jul 13 11:06 wwwperzl.sh
> > > >
> > > > All the objects have x, but I did this anyhow, as in the "instructions"
> > > >
> > > > chmod +x setup.sh
> > > > chmod: setup.sh: Operation not permitted.
> > > >
> > > > So it appears either I don't have the right authority or it balks because
> > > > everything already has x mode - too long since I did this with Debian 18
> > > > years ago!
> > > >
> > > > Thanks
> > > > Vern
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