Windows NT installation

RT Users
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Can you run RT on an Windows NT Workstation?
Are there reports from anybody?

I have run Perl 5.6, Apache and Mysql successfully, however not
mod_perl, and I don’t know if all required modules are available for
ActivePerl.

Is there a list of all required modules?
Any Windows-specific issues to watch out for?

Thanks,

Marcus

2

i’ve had no luck at it :frowning: I don’t think it will ever run on NT…
too
many
unix ties… at any rate, tell me if you have any luck at all :slight_smile:

Are there any similar Perl applications to RT which could be
recommended and are known to run on NT?

Thanks,

Marcus

3

i’ve had no luck at it :frowning: I don’t think it will ever run on NT…
too
many
unix ties… at any rate, tell me if you have any luck at all :slight_smile:

Are there any similar Perl applications to RT which could be
recommended and are known to run on NT?

Linux and FreeBSD will typically run just fine on cheap hardware. :slight_smile:

(I don’t know of anything -free- for NT. Remedy is a commonly-chosen
commercial product.)

Charlie Watts
cewatts@frontier.net
Frontier Internet
http://www.frontier.net/

4

So, to the best of my knowledge, a port of RT to NT has never been attempted,
but I don’t know of anything that is actually unix specific in the code.

Apache, mod_perl, mysql and DBD::mysql all run on NT. I suspect that
most of the work needed to do a port is actually in the installation tools.

But no, I’ve not heard of any windows-based tool that’s equivalent to RT.

-jOn Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 03:28:28AM +0100, Marcus wrote:

On 29.11.01 at 11:21 Jay Kramer wrote:

i’ve had no luck at it :frowning: I don’t think it will ever run on NT…
too
many
unix ties… at any rate, tell me if you have any luck at all :slight_smile:

Are there any similar Perl applications to RT which could be
recommended and are known to run on NT?

Thanks,

Marcus

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So, to the best of my knowledge, a port of RT to NT has never been
attempted,
but I don’t know of anything that is actually unix specific in the
code.

So no commands which make portability problematic such as exec, fork,
system commands?
I guess chmod or trying to suid could cause problems.

Can those things be commented out?

Basically, the only problem is when a module which uses C code has not
been compiled for use on Windows, or will not run on Windows. So, I
just need to find out about the modules.

Marcus

6

So, to the best of my knowledge, a port of RT to NT has never been attempted,
but I don’t know of anything that is actually unix specific in the code.

Apache, mod_perl, mysql and DBD::mysql all run on NT. I suspect that
most of the work needed to do a port is actually in the installation tools.

But no, I’ve not heard of any windows-based tool that’s equivalent to RT.

-j

Not free, but fairly cheap: http://www.wonderdesk.com It’s written in
perl, with either a flat file ($499) or MySQL backend ($1,499). It seems
to have similar functionality to RT. It’s not my intention to start a
discussion about whether it’s better than RT or not. I’m a very happy
RT user. I learned about wonderdesk only when the main campus help desk
chose to adopt it instead of RT, which I recommended. Wonderdesk runs on
Win2K and Unix/Linux.

Thanks again for RT!

Ben

Ben Chapman
Director of Computing Resources
University of Tulsa College of Law
bchapman@utulsa.edu

i’ve had no luck at it :frowning: I don’t think it will ever run on NT…
too
many
unix ties… at any rate, tell me if you have any luck at all :slight_smile:

Are there any similar Perl applications to RT which could be
recommended and are known to run on NT?

Thanks,

Marcus

rt-users mailing list
rt-users@lists.fsck.com
http://lists.fsck.com/mailman/listinfo/rt-users

Benjamin J. Chapman benjamin-chapman@utulsa.edu
Director of Computing Resources
University of Tulsa College of Law
(918)631-2405 FAX: (918)631-3126