Hi I am getting this message on the Windows command prompt when I try to restart OTRS Services

 

“can’t open directory crontab.txt No such file or directory”

 

and Apache fails to start.

 

Below are the steps I have taken to reinstall version 2.2.5 from our live Apache server to the latest Windows installation on our Windows test machine.

 

i)                     downloaded the latest version of the Windows installer of OTRS 2.4.4 - DONE

ii)                   dropped the mysql database - DONE

iii)                 loaded dumped database from live server – DONE

iv)                 turned OTRS Services (Cron, Apache, MySQL) off - DONE

v)                  cleaned the /otrs/otrs directory of 2.4.4 - DONE

vi)                 replaced with 2.2..5 version of the same directory – DONE

vii)               copied Config.pm from the live server to Windows box – DONE.

viii)              added the following line toConfig.pm: $Self->{'SendmailModule'} = 'Kernel::System::Email::DoNotSendEmail';

ix)                 also, on Config.pm, changed paths “$Self->{Home} = '/opt/otrs’” to “$Self->{Home} = 'C:/PROGRA~1/OTRS/OTRS';” and “$Self->{'LogModule::LogFile'} = '/var/log/otrs.log';” to “$Self->{'LogModule::LogFile'} = 'C:/PROGRA~1/OTRS/OTRS/var/log/otrs.log';”

x)                  try to turn OTRS Services back on – Error message comes up


If I then drop the 2.2.5 live database, reload the 2.4.4 database, turn OTRS Services off, restore the original 2.4.4 otrs/otrs directory, there is then no problem turning OTRS Services back on and logging in to 2.4.4.
 
Clearly there is something about the database import it doesn't like - any ideas?
 
Thanks a million
 
Lev


From: Rory <rclerkin@gmail.com>
To: User questions and discussions about OTRS. <otrs@otrs.org>
Sent: Friday, 11 September, 2009 18:29:56
Subject: Re: [otrs] Install OTRS 2.2.5 on Windows XP machine

Actually, it might be in the config.pm. Somebody else may correct me
but the setting should be in the config.pm file as the config.pm
values overwrite the default.pm values.

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2009/9/11 Rory <rclerkin@gmail.com>:
> Hi Lev,
>
> If you havn't updated the the config.pm to the windows path then do. I
> remember having to make the same change when I was setting up the
> server here.
>
> Rory
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> 2009/9/11 Lev Davidovich <l.davidovich@yahoo.co.uk>:
>> I imported the Defaults.pm file from my Unix system.
>>
>> It contains definitions of paths as follows
>>
>> Line 745
>>  $Self->{'Home'} = '/opt/otrs';
>>
>> Should I change this to a Windows path. Would that be
>>
>> C:\Program Files\OTRS\OTRS\
>>
>> ??
>>
>> ________________________________
>> From: Ralf Hildebrandt <Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de>
>> To: otrs@otrs.org
>> Sent: Friday, 11 September, 2009 16:34:56
>> Subject: Re: [otrs] Install OTRS 2.2.5 on Windows XP machine
>>
>> * Lev Davidovich <l.davidovich@yahoo.co.uk>:
>>> Thanks I tried that and message I get on the command line is
>>>
>>> ERROR:  /opt/otrs/RELEASE does not exist! This file is needed by central
>>> system parts of OTRS. the system will not work without this file.
>>> Died at C:\Program Files\Kernel\Config\Defaults.pm line 2143
>>
>> Why is the file missing?
>> I wonder why it would try Unix Paths on a Windows system...
>>
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