insall veritas agent on linux - "must be run by a user with root ID" 1

[gwu]

I am trying to install remote agent on a debian box.

after unpacking the tar I execute:

./installralus

but get:

CPI ERROR V-9-10-1179 installralus must be run by a user with root ID

Whats going on??

thanks

 

[justin2000]

Exactly what it says, it must be run by a user with root ID.

FYI debian is not a support OS with ralus.

 

[gwu]

Obviosly!! How do I fix it . It seems that even unsupoprted ,it should still work.

thanks

 

[TexasToast]

I am working on getting ralus installed on FreeBSD, also not supported. The way I got past that error was to open up the file CPI40.pm in the {$PATH]/linux/ralus/scripts/install directory, ({$PATH} is where you extracted the ralus tarball). I found and commented out the following lines (on or about line numbers 1842-1844):

#if ($id ne "uid=0(root)") {
# _die("$COMM{PROG} must be run by a user with root ID", 10, 1179, "$COMM{PROG}");
#}

And after that, the installer ran fine.