Trouble installing CFMX7 on SLES9

[nhyder]

I have successfully installed CFMX701 on one SuSE Linux Enterprise server 9,
but cannot install on a virtually identical one. I have asked support several
times but I don?t think they have got any ideas yet; perhaps someone else may
have some suggestions.

I have downloaded the coldfusion-701-lin.bin executable from the Macromedia
trials downloads page and placed into the /tmp directory. Next, I changed the
permissions on the file to allow root to execute (chmod u+x). As the
instructions said, I then executed "./coldfusion-701-lin.bin -i gui" to run the
installer in GUI mode.

I then went through, entering my licence key, selecting apache2 configs etc.
The install completes, but with errors. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Extract of the log file is below:



Install Begin: Thu Oct 13 10:07:14 BST 2005
Install End: Thu Oct 13 10:10:11 BST 2005

Created with Zero G's InstallAnywhere 6.1 Enterprise Build 2328


Summary
-------

Installation: Successful with errors.

59 SUCCESSES
0 WARNINGS
4 NONFATAL ERRORS
0 FATAL ERRORS

Action Notes:

None.

Install Log Detail:

[...CUT...]

Modify Text File - Single File: cfmx-init.sh
Status: SUCCESSFUL

ANT Script Error:
Status: ERROR
Additional Notes: ERROR - standalone.xmlExecute
failed: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: chmod: not found

Custom Action: com.macromedia.ia.action.ExecuteANTScriptAction
Status: SUCCESSFUL

Install File: /opt/coldfusionmx7/jrun-config.zip
Status: SUCCESSFUL

Install File: /opt/coldfusionmx7/license.txt
Status: SUCCESSFUL

Install File: /opt/coldfusionmx7/Readme.htm
Status: SUCCESSFUL

ANT Script Error:
Status: ERROR
Additional Notes: ERROR -
standalone.xml/opt/coldfusionmx7/lib not found.

Custom Action: com.macromedia.ia.action.ExecuteANTScriptAction
Status: SUCCESSFUL

Modify Text File - Multiple Files: No target chosen
Status: SUCCESSFUL

ANT Script Error:
Status: ERROR
Additional Notes: ERROR -
unix_basic_commands.xmlsrcdir does not exist!

Custom Action: com.macromedia.ia.action.ExecuteANTScriptAction
Status: SUCCESSFUL


ANT Script Error:
Status: ERROR
Additional Notes: ERROR -
prepare-cfmx-unix-connectors.xmlError adding connector to webserver: Apache
CommandLine:
ErrorString: Execute failed: java.io.IOException: java.io.IOException: chmod:
not found

Custom Action: com.macromedia.ia.action.WSConfigAction
Status: SUCCESSFUL

[...CUT...]

[BKBK]

Check whether you typed "chmod" or "chmod:".

[nhyder]

Before executing, I typed:

chmod u+x coldfusion-701-lin.bin

So that I could then do:

./coldfusion-701-lin.bin -i gui

to execute from the current (temporary directory "/tmp") as root. The
installer appears to run okay, but just with "non-fatal" errors. I have tried
using just console instead of GUI and still get same result.

I know the install did not complete properly, as in reality the resulting
/opt/coldfusionmx7/ directory does not seem to have execute bits set for any
files. Also, there is a jrun-config.zip file in there and that isn?t present on
the server that worked?

[BKBK]

What happens when you add read and write permissions? That is,
chmod u+rwx coldfusion-701-lin.bin

I suspect a permissions problem.

[sdupre]

It's saying "chmod not found". The ant script and connector installer uses
chmod to change permissions on files,etc.

Make sure the env you install in has a PATH that includes "chmod". That
sounds strange.

Stephen Dupre
Macromedia QA

[nhyder]

Thank you Stephen!

For some strange reason, all files in the /bin directory didn't have the user
execute bit set, chmod being one of them. I can only assume I must have tried
to make the server more secure and removed execute permissions from user as
opposed to other by mistake at some time.

First part of install now completed withour error. I will now set-up
connectors - have done this on other box so should be okay.