[freeside] Some basic install clarifications

[ivan at 420.am]

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 05:00:08PM -0400, Charles Sprickman wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm running Freeside 1.4.0 on FreeBSD 4.6, perl 5.005_03 using
> Apache::ASP.
> 
> I've followed the instructions, but I get a little lost down at the bottom
> where one configures the users.  I understand that I must run the
> "freeside-adduser" command to add the users to the htpasswd file and I'm
> guessing this also adds an "internal" Freeside user.  I think I'm clear on
> that.
> 
> But after that I'm confused as to which user to use for the "fs_setup"
> step.  Does it matter?

Nope, it doesn't.  Any user you added with `freeside-adduser' will do.  
How do you feel the documentation note "passing the username of a Freeside
user you created above" is unclear?

> This command creates all the tables, but I'm
> confused what the username has to do with it.
> 
> Also the next step "populate-msgcat" has me lost as well, I don't know
> which user to supply or to do this for every Freeside user.

Same as above.  Any user you added with `freeside-adduser' will do.

> Also, once I figure this out, I'd like to dump my config and start over.
> What exactly needs to be done besides blasting away the db?

rm /usr/local/etc/freeside/counters.<datasrc>/*
rm /usr/local/etc/freeside/cache.<datasrc>/*

And if you also want to remove your configuration, in addition to the 
database:

rm /usr/local/etc/freeside/conf.<datasrc>/*
cp freeside-1.4.0/conf/* /usr/local/etc/freeside/conf.<datasrc>/

where <datasrc> is your DBI datasource.

-- 
_ivan