Question

My server runs cpanel, which I think means that RCS is automatically installed (cpanel uses it). However, twiki cannot find it and according to commands like 'which rcs' it doesn't exist. According to testenv RC doesn't exist at all.

I even tried building it but received an error during the make ('./conf.sh: testing compiler for plausibility ... ./conf.sh: The command 'gcc -Dhas_conf_h -I. -I. -g -O -o a.out a.c ' failed on a trivial program.')

I'm not well verse in compiling things so I might have screwed it up.

I am trying to diagnose this problem, and I'm not sure where to go next. I've read the various notes about this, but I'm not exactly sure how to proceed.

thanks! -- DaveHecker - 07 Jun 2005

Environment

-- DaveHecker - 07 Jun 2005

Answer

i recommend contacting your hosting provider and find out where they have RCS installed, that is, what is the full path to the RCS executable?

-- WillNorris - 07 Jun 2005

Thanks for your response. I am on a vps system running Virtuozzo and Cpanel on RedHat. So, I am the 'admin' of my virtual server, with root access. However, even as root I can't find any evidence that RCS is in there. I am told that cpanel uses RCS for it's internal processes, and I've seen some commas and other notations that suggest that this is true.

With full access, can you possibly recommend a way that I might find the path?

-- DaveHecker - 07 Jun 2005

find / -name rcs

-- WillNorris - 07 Jun 2005

It ran for a while, then returned nothing.

-- DaveHecker - 07 Jun 2005

then i suppose you will have to compile from source or find a pre-compiled binary for your platform

-- WillNorris - 07 Jun 2005

It looks like you have root access to your virtual server only, e.g. each virtual server is running in a jailed environment. That means, you won't be able access files outside of the tree of your own virtual server.

Your options are to compile RCS, or to use RcsLite which emulates RCS in Perl. This can be enabled in your twiki/lib/TWiki.cfg.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Jul 2005