Stas (and others)--
Following your suggestion I built/tested as a normal user. This time only one test fails (one of the CGI tests). Below is the output from make test.
Great. However if you don't mind to help others, I'd like you to help me to resolve your original problem, it shouldn't be a problem to run tests as root. So if you can answer my questions from the original reply to you, that will help a lot
Thanks for your help. I've only been using unix/linux for a few months, but I've learned an enormous amount from lists like this. I really appreciate it.
We all have been helped while being newbies and try to help others in the same positions we once were. It's a win-win "vicious" circle ;)
Just in case you don't have the original reply, here is what I wanted to know (that's when you return to run the build and tests as root, not a normal user, which we now know that works):
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Looks like you encounter permission problems. Since you have /root/mod_perl-1.99_09/t/hooks in the path. I'm pretty sure that if you build/test as a normal user and only su to install, everything will work just fine.
We try to provide a workaround for testing with root and what we do is chown the files to the uid/gid the server is configured to run with. This is because the server can't be run as root for security reasons. Can you do:
grep User t/conf/httpd.conf
it tries to pick the 'httpd' or 'nobody' user to run the tests with. If you don't have such user on your machine this may explain the problem you are having.
Also, I'd like to see the output of 'make test', since it tells me when it chowns the files and to which uid/gid.
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