Hello

I've been trying to get a successful installation of Pound up and running,
but it keeps failing on creating the pound.cfg.

Using pound.current but have also tried with all versions back to 1.3 -
same result.

Have tried just using the default values in the ./configure, have also
tried using other prefixes such as /usr/X11R6

In each case the ./configure - make - make install seem to run without a
hitch, the make shows that it seems to be trying to output a pond.cfg to
/usr/local/etc/pound.cfg but it never actually does so.

I've tried by creating an empty text file of that name just to see if it
will overwrite - no go

I've tried altering the pound.cfg line in config.c to show
${prefix}/etc/pound.cfg - no go.

I've tried on Fedora, 2 different Slackware, Mandrake 9.2 and SUSE 8.2 - no
go

Looking at the config.c I can see what seems to be the content of the
pound.cfg but don't have any basis for comparison. Also I'm a little
worried that if that bit is failing, maybe something else is broken as
well.

So, please can anyone tell me what may be going wrong, what Linux distros
this is known to build on, and if possible can some kind soul please post a
generic pound.cfg so I can find out if Pound will do what I want it to??

Thanx - sorry if there's loads of corporate b/s at the end of this email
it's out of my control!!!



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Robin,

I think you must be confusing the build configuration with the run-time
configuration.  pound.cfg is the run-time configuration and is *not*
created as part of the build process.   If you follow the build
instructons, can you successfully build an executable?  You then need 
to construct, by hand, a poound.cfg file.  You can either bind that file 
to pound when you launch it
	/usr/local/sbin/pound -f poound.cfg
or put it into the standard place -- /usr/local/etc/pound.cfg or (in some 
versions) /usr/local/etc/pound/pound.cfg.

I have used pound with several distributions with no build problems.

	-d 

On Tue, 9 Mar 2004, Robin Collins wrote:
[...]

Dennis

Excellent - thank you for the explanation. No problem with the binary - the
documentation sort of led me to think a default pound.cfg would be
automatically created in the default location - hence my concern.

Will steam ahead and see what happens :-)

Robin

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