/root/virtualmin-install.log

So I suck, but I had webmin installed on my server and uninstalled it (because I thought I had to before installing Virtualmin (I want to use it to set up email accounts).

I’ve invested an incredible amount of time into setting up a bunch of stuff on the server and would REALLY hate to have to reinstall it (as in I might be crying myself to sleep in the fetal position for the next couple nights).

Also, I’m incredibly sorry to say I do NOT have any real knowledge about Linux, servers, or anything else (presumably if I did I could set up the emails by hand).

I AM going to read up about Linux, but I’m currently way too busy with school to teach myself how to do this. I know it’s lame, but I couldn’t wait until school was out to start building the website.

I’m on Centos 5.5, in Terminal I’ve typed

#wget wget http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/scripts/install.sh
#sh install.sh

I then choose “y” to install and get:
touch: cannot touch `/root/virtualmin-install.log’: No such file or directory
INFO - Started installation log in /root/virtualmin-install.log
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Checking for fully qualified hostname…
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Hostname OK: fully qualified as sherwoodforum.net
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Installing serial number and license key into /etc/virtualmin-license
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Loading OS selection library…
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/oschooser.pl Succeeded.
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Loading OS list…
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/lib/os_list.txt Succeeded.
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Operating system name: CentOS Linux
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Operating system version: 5
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Configuring package manager for CentOS Linux 5…
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Disabling SELinux during installation…
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
/usr/sbin/setenforce: SELinux is disabled
INFO - setenforce 0 failed: 1
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Download of http://software.virtualmin.com/gpl/rhel/5/x86_64/virtualmin-release-latest.noarch.rpm Succeeded.
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
Running updatedb so locate works…this will take a little while.
Attempting to import various system RPM-GPG-KEY files…Errors may occur,
if you’ve already imported them. It is safe to ignore these errors.
INFO - Succeeded.
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
INFO - Installing dependencies using command: /usr/bin/yum -y -d 2 install bind bind-utils caching-nameserver httpd postfix bind spamassassin procmail perl-DBD-Pg perl-DBD-MySQL quota iptables openssl python mailman subversion mysql mysql-server mysql-devel postgresql postgresql-server rh-postgresql rh-postgresql-server logrotate webalizer php php-domxl php-gd php-imap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-pgsql php-snmp php-xmlrpc php-mbstring mod_perl mod_python cyrus-sasl dovecot spamassassin mod_dav_svn cyrus-sasl-gssapi mod_ssl ruby ruby-devel rubygems perl-XML-Simple perl-Crypt-SSLeay
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
…in progress, please wait…
install.sh.3: line 157: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
/usr/bin/yum -y -d 2 install bind bind-utils caching-nameserver httpd postfix bind spamassassin procmail perl-DBD-Pg perl-DBD-MySQL quota iptables openssl python mailman subversion mysql mysql-server mysql-devel postgresql postgresql-server rh-postgresql rh-postgresql-server logrotate webalizer php php-domxl php-gd php-imap php-mysql php-odbc php-pear php-pgsql php-snmp php-xmlrpc php-mbstring mod_perl mod_python cyrus-sasl dovecot spamassassin mod_dav_svn cyrus-sasl-gssapi mod_ssl ruby ruby-devel rubygems perl-XML-Simple perl-Crypt-SSLeay failed. Error (if any): 0

Displaying the last 15 lines of /root/virtualmin-install.log to help troubleshoot this problem:
tail: cannot open `/root/virtualmin-install.log’ for reading: No such file or directory

FATAL - Fatal Error Occurred: Something went wrong during installation: 0
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
FATAL - Cannot continue installation.
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
FATAL - Attempting to remove virtualmin repository configuration, so the installation can be
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
FATAL - re-attempted after any problems have been resolved.
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
FATAL - Removing temporary directory and files.
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
FATAL - If you are unsure of what went wrong, you may wish to review the log
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory
FATAL - in /root/virtualmin-install.log
./log4sh: line 842: /root/virtualmin-install.log: No such file or directory

First thing to do here, please enclose any console output in tags like this:

[code]Screen output[/code]

Then they are actually readable (line breaks, monospace font). :wink:

Howdy,

Hrm, something unusual is definitely going on :slight_smile:

Are you on a dedicated server, or a VPS?

From the above output, it almost looks like there’s either no “/root” directory, or that it isn’t writable.

Are you running the installation as the root user?

If so, what output does this command produce:

ls -ld /root

Thanks,

-Eric