Install problems on OpenBSD - geturl Abort and license server has no name

gebickford · Post by **gebickford** » Mon Jun 18, 2001 3:36 pm

I am attempting to use the FreeBSD version, loading it onto an OpenBSD platform - I figured it was worth a try!

Install is failing at the database creation point. There are two possible causes:

1. It appears that your license server on 198.492.220.90 (the number I got off one of the postings here) does not have a valid domain name. Many firewalls, including the one at my web hosting provider, refuse connections on port 80 to servers without this. I'm not sure this is the problem but it would explain why I can use Lynx to get to www.thunderstone.com but I can't connect to the license server on port 80 (or with lynx)

2. If I try to run geturl with any URL, it merely responds, "Abort". I somehow expect that this is a FreeBSD/OpenBSD difference. Sigh...

I note on some newer postings that the license server is now at ls.thunderstone.com, not the numeric address shown above. So I presume the problem is number 2?

Post by **mark** » Mon Jun 18, 2001 3:50 pm

Correct, the license server is ls.thunderstone.com. Apparently openbsd can not run freebsd binaries. Maybe openbsd has some kind of compatibility package you can install. Or, since you're experimenting, you could try the bsdi version.

gebickford · Post by **gebickford** » Mon Jun 18, 2001 8:37 pm

The sysadmin at the provider installed the linux compatibility libraries, and everything worked fine. I re-ran the install program and the database was created without a problem. Actually I think I had to create the db directory and make it world writable first...