I downloaded cpanel for evaluation purpose. But when I run the installer, after a few steps, it spits out lines after lines of:

Waiting for rsync to finish....
Waiting for rsync to finish....
....

I don't think rsync was running at that point, and so it seems to be in a recursive loop.

Any cpanel guru knows what could be causing the problem?

Thanks,

Peter

If you're just installing it, it took time, what resync do is check your files with the Cpanel server files, and then upgrade the packages that need to be upgraded.

Since I don't have a very fast connection at my office (ADSL 512), it took me +1 hour to finish the installation.

thats either means one of a few things

A) the box cannot contact updates.cpanel.net

B) It didn't create /scripts and thus you need to get your self a new /scripts dir and untar it in /

It means you need to install rsync on the box before you run the install. Either double check that rsync is installed, or copy over the /scripts/ directory before you run the install script.

-Brendan

Thanks a lot for all your help. I found out that I did not have rsync installed. I installed it, and currently cpanel install is going on.

Which brings me to another question: As cpanel sync with updates.cpanel.net, it seems to be installing some pretty useless packages such as kde, office, ppp, etc...

Is there any reason why it is doing that? is it just updating everything in my rh7.2 installation?

Thanks,

Peter