Install keeps failing on fresh CentOS 4.4

[smoked1]

I have tried this twice now with no luck. This is a fresh install of CentOS 4.4. This is driving me crazy. Does anyone know how to get this thing installed? Is there a phone number for DA that I can call or something?

## REPORT_START
Welcome to DirectAdmin verion 1.29.2!
You are now about to run the install program. If DirectAdmin is already
installed, it may destroy previous data.


Here is the information given:

Admin user: admin
Admin email: [email protected]
Server IP: 72.232.10.122
Server IP Netmask: 255.255.255.248
Server Hostname: neo.cbshost.com
Name Servers:
ns1.cbshost.com
ns2.cbshost.com
Backup of /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf.back successfull
Install of /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/httpd.conf to /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf successfull
*** Unable to backup /etc/proftpd.conf to /etc/proftpd.conf.back : Unable to open /etc/proftpd.conf for reading<br>

Install of /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/proftpd.conf to /etc/proftpd.conf successfull
Install of /usr/local/directadmin/data/templates/directadmin.conf to /usr/local/directadmin/conf/directadmin.conf successfull
*** Unable to read directadmin.conf. Check permissions and make sure that it exists. Cannot find the diradmin user. Make sure the diradmin user exists in your system.<br>

## INSTALL_FAILED
## REPORT_END

 

[smoked1]

Could this have something to do with the fact that I went from debian to CentOS?

 

[Marshall]

From the error it seems like either the diradmin user doesnt exist or the file isnt owned by diradmin, try doing a cat /etc/passwd | grep diradmin to see if something comes up. If nothing gets listed then you have no diradmin user and need to do

groupadd diradmin
useradd -g diradmin -d /usr/local/directadmin -s /bin/bash diradmin
chown -R diradmin:diradmin /usr/local/directadmin
cd /usr/local/directadmin/conf
ls -ls

and make sure directadmin.conf is owned by diradmin and chmodded to 600 (-rw------) then try again.

 

[smoked1]

I got this fixed. It was the os registered with the license.