[Xorp-users] Help !

Philippe Van Hecke philippe.vanhecke@belnet.be
Fri, 15 Apr 2005 14:32:49 +0200


On Friday 15 April 2005 14:21, zze-BEN SAID Mehdi RD-CORE-ISS wrote:
> I'm a XORP new user, I configured and compiled Xorp correctly, then when
> I tried to start it (by using the -n option) just to test it. He failes
> to communicate with xorp_rtrmgr.
> Then I understood that I have to star xorp_rtrmgr before. I did it, but
> it told me that it failed to open the "config.boot" file. In the
> documentation, they said that this file would exist in the xorp
> installation directory, but I didn't find it! So create one, by copying
> the "config.boot.sample".
> I restarted xorp_rtrmgr. This time, it worked. I started "xorpsh", it
> worked too. But when I tried to enter the configuration mode here is
> what I had:
>
> xorp>configure
> ERROR: You do not have the permission to do this operation..
> xorp>
>
> Notice that I was doing this as root!!!
>  So please somebody explain this to me, I don't really know what to do.
> Thanks
If i rember well, i think that you need to create a group xorp and put the 
user you use to start xorp in this group.

Regards,
Philippe.


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