Re: [Gnumed-devel] Ubuntu-specific issues

[Jim Busser]

The same limitation (non-support of su -c) on Mac as posted in August:

        http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnumed-devel/2009-08/msg00042.html

I made a small note on http://wiki.gnumed.de/bin/view/Gnumed/ServerInstall 
 pointing out that, apparently, without

        su -c

will be disabled one check and one cleanup routine. What is this  
cleanup, if it should be manually done, and is it worth modifying the  
script to exclude the =su -c= line if Mac OS and Ubuntu can be detected?

On 2009-10-24, at 10:28 PM, Jerzy Luszawski wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I know that the reference platform for Gnumed is Debian, but I use  
> it under Ubuntu, and sometimes I run into Ubuntu-specific problems.
>
> This time I tried to bootstrap the latest database, and was stopped  
> by the first check made by gm-bootstrap_server script.
> The line below does not work in Ubuntu:
> ===========
> if ! su -c "psql -t -d template1 -c \"show lc_ctype;\"" postgres |  
> grep -q -e C -e UTF-8 ; then
> ===========
> Ubuntu has a little different security defaults and "su -c" is not  
> used (no user has a permission to do "su"). Instead, permission to   
> use "sudo" is granted.
>
> This is no problem to me, but may confuse other users trying/ 
> evaluating Gnumed.
> Maybe it is worth mentioning in Wiki? I and others could then report  
> another Ubuntu-specific issues, which are important when building  
> the package for this distro.
>
> Jerzy Luszawski
>
>
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