First of all thanks for a great application and install docs.

http://git.aegirproject.org/?p=provision.git;a=blob_plain;f=docs/INSTALL...
Just would like to add a note to it but could not since it was in the git repo

The line
su -s /bin/sh aegir -c "sh install.sh aegir.example.com"
kept saying it could not find the file.
But when I ran
su -s /bin/sh aegir -c "./install.sh aegir.rvtc.us"
it worked.

Not sure if it was me or?

Then there is a note about the message during install
you are running as your "aegir" user
But the Install.txt says
Note you must run this as root or prefix with sudo.
Maybe just make it more clear how to do both via the su -s ? or just remove the 'Note you must run this as root or prefix with sudo.'
???

Also to get the install.sh file with wget just got me the file but it was called '?p=provision.git;a=blob_plain;f=install.sh.txt;hb=HEAD' so I just copy pasted from the web this txt into an install.sh file.
So even though the wget works and gets the file it is an odd name so maybe a note to say copy / paste if you are at the command line or just rename '\?p\=provision.git\;a\=blob_plain\;f\=install.sh.txt\;hb\=HEAD' to install.sh

Thanks again,
Alfred Nutile

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Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Not sure about your first case, I can't reproduce, maybe you were simply in the wrong working dir at the time.

It is not strictly mandatory to run the sh install.sh.txt as root, however it is simpler to execute as root:

su -s /bin/sh aegir -c "sh install.sh.txt aegir.example.com"

rather than 1)drop into a shell as the aegir user and then 2) run the script simply with 'sh install.sh.txt aegir.example.com' (two steps instead of one).

However I see it could be confusing, so I've reworded the install.sh.txt from

"you are running as your aegir user"

to

"you are executing this script as your aegir user"

which is what is really happening anyway.

I have modified the INSTALL.txt so that rather than just provide the URL of the install.sh.txt, it provides the appropriate wget command to download and properly name a copy of install.sh.txt. FYI this command is (in the case of the bleeding edge 'HEAD' release from git)

wget -O install.sh.txt 'http://git.aegirproject.org/?p=provision.git;a=blob_plain;f=install.sh.txt;hb=HEAD'

However it is perfectly acceptable to view this script in a browser and copy and paste the contents into an empty file on your server if you so wish, too (as well as naming the file whatever you want to)

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yurtboy commented

Thanks for the reply and all the work you are doing on this!

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

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