Invalid user at installation

[solved] Invalid user at installation

I followed the guide (http://www.howtoforge.com/perfect-server-centos-5.2-ispconfig-3) of installing ispconfig3 for CentOS 5.2 on CentOS 5.3,
and got following error:

Code:

chown: `ispconfig:ispconfig': invalid user
chown: `getmail': invalid user

and

Code:

httpd: bad user name ispconfig
Starting httpd:                                            [FAILED]

What should I do from this point?

Thanks in advance.

 

You're right. I figured it out after posting : )
I actually updated the title to say [solved] but some how it isn't reflected in the forum.

 

i dont have no ipsconfig user or group created...

Forgive my english please.
I just installed the perfect-server-centos-5.3-x86_64-ispconfig-3 from scratch ( about 4 times in 2 days) . Everything is working flawlessly all the way trough...except at the end when it's time to install ispconfig. Just before that i tried with success http://myserverip/webmail OK, http://myserverip/phpmyadmin OK. So i was good.
When i install ispconfig i've got all the 4 times the same message: chown: `ispconfig:ispconfig': usager invalide chown: `getmail': usager invalide . HTTPD wont start.
I swear i follow all the procedure line by line, and i'm sure i have getmail installed.
So i join in the my ispconfig output configuration in hope that someone can help me. I will love to use ispconfig

Thanks again.

 

sometimes sudo -s does not work. I first thought sudo would be enough, but it turns out that I'm wrong.
I still do not know the reason, but some commands are missing when in sudo -s.

so, try running the install script under root user, that should fix the issue.

 

no success...same message

Hi
I logged in as root user
1. drop database dbispconfig in mysql
2. run the php -q install.php script...same thing

Do i need to re-run all the installation process with the root user ?

Thank you!

 

its working finaly [SOLVED]

Thanks i understand fast but you have to explain me a long time lol

Working at last

 

Re: same problem

Hi, I've logged in as root and when I tried to run the install i get the same error:
chown: `ispconfig:ispconfig': invalid user
chown: `getmail': invalid user
...
Stopping httpd: [FAILED]
httpd: bad user name ispconfig
Starting httpd: [FAILED]

I've checked and made sure that I have getmail installed and I have tried to uninstall / reinstall. Previously I also had an issue getting pure-ftpd to work (wouldnt start when installed with yum but seems to be ok when i installed the rpm).

I also noticed that above this during the Configuring Apache section i get:

Configuring Apache
PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /tmp/ispconfig3_install /install/dist/lib/fedora.lib.php on line 436

I opened up the fedora.lib.php file to that line and i see the following section, with the foreach part being the line with the error:

// copy('tpl/apache_ispconfig.conf.master',$vhost_conf_dir.'/ispconfig.conf');
$content = rf("tpl/apache_ispconfig.conf.master");
$records = $this->db->queryAllRecords("SELECT * FROM server_ip WHERE server_id = ".$c$
if(count($records) > 0) {
foreach($records as $rec) {
$content .= "NameVirtualHost ".$rec["ip_address"].":80\n";
$content .= "NameVirtualHost ".$rec["ip_address"].":443\n";
}
}


Any suggestsions on what might be wrong or where to look? I'm running CentOS 5.4

Thanks!

 

What's the output of

Code:

getenforce

?

 

Solved !

greetings falko !

I was also getting these messages when running install.php
chown: `ispconfig:ispconfig': invalid user
chown: `getmail': invalid user

All I had to do to fix it was to add /sbin and /usr/sbin to the path, drop the database and reinstall ispconfig!

You guys do a great job!