Hi Jon,

I Installed coda from the repositories on a Debian Lenny (my coda
server is a Debian Lenny). Here is what I wrote on my installation
log, don't know if it helps. Note that my server is accessible both
from the LAN and from an external vpn connection so there are some
tricks to get the server to report the correct server name to
everybody. My set up isn't perfect because *on the server* (and only
on the server) I access coda using a different hostname. Don't know
exactly why but I don't care because I don't need to to that :)

This server has been up for almost 2 years now and it's holding up
pretty well. Let me know if I can help you with anything ;)

Paulo

Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and add at the end:

# apt-get update
# apt-get install coda-server
# vice-setup:

# apt-get install coda-client

Remove "127.0.0.1 SERVER_NAME..." from /etc/hosts

Ensure that in the /vice/db/servers only one line exists mapping
SERVER_FULL_NAME to 1.

# /etc/init.d/codasrv.init start
# /etc/init.d/auth2.init start
# /etc/init.d/coda-update start
# /etc/init.d/coda-client start

# createvol_rep / SERVER_FULL_NAME

# /etc/init.d/codasrv.init stop
# /etc/init.d/auth2.init stop
# /etc/init.d/coda-update stop
# /etc/init.d/coda-client stop
# /etc/init.d/codasrv.init start
# /etc/init.d/auth2.init start
# /etc/init.d/coda-update start
# /etc/init.d/coda-client start

# pdbtool
pdbtool> nu ***
pdbtool> ag -1 ***
pdbtool> exit

Change /vice/hostname to "PUBLIC_SERVER_FULL_NAME"


On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 7:27 AM, Jon Foster
<jon-lists_at_jfpossibilities.com> wrote:
> I just installed the coda-server v6.9.5 debian packages for Lenny, with
> all of its requirements, by adding your repository to my system. It
> failed to finish the configuration phase for coda-update & coda-server,
> blowing up with the configuration of coda-update.
>
> I browsed through the init.d/coda-update script and saw that it wanted
> "/vice/db/scm", which doesn't exist. I started through the "how-to" and
> it said to run "vice-setup". However when I tried to do that it blew
> with, "Could not find the server.conf.ex template file."
>
> Apparently nobody has done a "virgin" install of coda-server on a Debian
> Lenny system in a while. Can someone tell me what didn't happen and how
> to fix it or point me to the correct docs so I can continue to evaluate
> this system for a project?
>
> While I'm writing an email: Has CODA been abandoned? So little has been
> done to it. Does it just work that well that there is nothing left to
> do? In short, what is its status?
>
> TIA - Jon
>
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> JF Possibilities, Inc.
> jon_at_jfpossibilities.com
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