Minivend 4.01 Released | Linux Today

Minivend 4.01 Released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 5, 2000

“MiniVend is the most powerful free shopping cart system
available today. Its features and power rival the costliest
commercial systems.” (from the MiniVend Web site)

****** message to minivend-announce from Mike Heins ******

Minivend-4.01 introduces the following:

  • Linux binaries will be tracked with all releases. The RPM spec
    files have been published, so it should be possible for users on
    other processors/operating systems to build binaries for those
    systems.

    Some things that are present in the Linux binary:

    • Log files are kept in /var/log/minivend
    • Demo catalogs are pre-built and placed in
      /var/lib/minivend/basic and /var/lib/minivend/simple.
    • PID and socket files go in /var/run/minivend
    • Main config file is /etc/minivend.cfg
    • /etc/rc.d/init.d/minivend script added, adds starts for
      runlevels 3, 4, 5, stops for rest of the levels.
    • /etc/logrotate.d/minivend log rotation added.

    MiniMate and minivend-docs RPMs are also provided.

    They are not relocatable yet, sorry. I think I may be able to
    figure that one out eventually….

  • Bug in [query …] and other tags fixed. It prevented
    [more-list] … [/more-list] from working properly.
  • Bug in build procedure found, should prevent binaries and man
    pages ending up in strange places.
  • Rework of some things in makecat to make catalogs relocatable
    and transportable.

Regards,
Mike

Internet Robotics, 131 Willow Lane, Floor 2, Oxford, OH 45056
phone +1.513.523.7621 fax 7501 mikeh@minivend.com

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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