[las_users] problem/gotcha/workaround for a 6_5_1_2 install

[Rob Cermak <cermak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Fresh install on Mandrake 10.2

Problem #1 : -------------------------

Saw the URI version message and found another bug in configure.pl... the
module name in the test also needs to be updated to trigger...

                    } elsif ($module eq 'URI') {

needs to be updated to URI:URL to match the module listing:
  URI::URL => 'URI-1.19',


                    } elsif ($module eq 'URI::URL') {

# More recent versions of URI leave an extra slash when resolving 
'//las.xml'.

                     require('DBI.pm');
                     if ($DBI::VERSION <= 1.19) {


Once I had the local copy installed in las, I had to change it back to

                    } elsif ($module eq 'URI') {

to get the LAS through the configure process.  

Might suggest?

                    } elsif ($module eq 'URI' || $module eq 'URI:URL') {


Problem/heads up #2 : -------- not really a problem, more of a gotcha

Password mismatch from configure -> Java

The password we enter during configure is not passed through to
$LAS_HOME/las_servlet/src/las.properties

I recall now that during the configure you have to use a 'root'-like 
privileged user so it creates the las user and password in the mysql
database.   What I did was created a las user with enough privileges
to allow drops and index creation.  So, the step where the it serializes 
the .xml to the database worked, fired up LAS and got a connection error
in reported by java.  IE: the passwords didn't match...  lots of head 
banging here.

Rob