Notes to 7.4 Beta1

Hi list!

Here some notes/experiences to the version 7.4 Beta1, since
I had some trouble to get it installed/operational (sorry, if
some of the topics are outdated already. The list server seems
to be down at the moment, so I cannot check the against the
list).

1) I've tried to install the RPMs on my machine (SuSE 7.2), in
this order: sapdb-ind, sapdb-srv74, sapdb-callif, sapdb-scriptif,
sapdb-web, and sapdb-testdb74.

The RPM sapdb-srv74 couldn't get installed, due to these reasons:

-> No user "sapdb" was installed and due to this,
-> The user "sapdb" was not a member in the group "sapdb".

I installed the user by hand and changed the group and the RPM
installed OK:

groupadd sapdb
useradd -g sapdb -d /opt/sapdb sapdb


2) When I tried to install the RPM "testdb74", he complained about
"permission denied", and the like, when I tried to start the testdb
script "su - sapdb -c /opt/sapdb/testdb74/create_demo_db.sh". So I
had a look at it, and found that the group "sapdb" wasn't able to
write into "/opt/sapdb". A call of

chgrp sapdb /opt/sapdb
chmod g+w /opt/sapdb

fixed this behaviour.


3) But the most annoying thing is, that the Javascript functions
"AddDevspace", "PutDevspace", "Cancel", etc. don't work with
Mozilla (at least version 1.2) on Linux.

If I have a look at the Javascript console, it tells me:

"javascript:AddDevspace('DATA0002','DATA') is not defined",
while the Javascript code _IS_ defined in the HTML page.

I guess it has something to do with the var scope in Mozilla,
but I don't have the time to search for it at the moment
(12/24, 1:30pm ;-)).


But beside all these (beta-)incidents: The SAP-DB looks _really_
interesting! And I'm strongly looking forward to test this DB!

And for today /
all I can say:

Merry Christmas and a happy new year to all of you! :-)))

Holger