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I have installed Yaws on Mac OS X via macport. When I call: sudo yaws -i, I get the error message: 

Erlang R16B03 (erts-5.10.4) [source] [64-bit] [smp:2:2] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:true]

Eshell V5.10.4  (abort with ^G)
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=ERROR REPORT==== 4-Apr-2014::23:13:20 ===
Yaws: Bad conf: "Can't find any config file "

Anybody faced with it?

Don Lino
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  • This question appears to be off-topic because it is about an error with using a program, and not about developing that program. – ughoavgfhw Apr 05 '14 at 01:53

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I can't speak for the viability of installations that come from macports or other such sources — you never know if they're put together correctly, or if they're kept up to date. You're much better off getting Yaws from its download website, or building it from source.

The error you're encountering is due to Yaws being unable to find its yaws.conf config file, normally kept in /etc/yaws/yaws.conf or /usr/local/etc/yaws/yaws.conf. Perhaps when you installed Yaws you didn't have the permissions required to install into one of those areas.

Steve Vinoski
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  • I have `/usr/local/etc/yaws/yaws.conf` in a system, but may be problem in access rights? In my case it's `drwxr-x--- 5 andrew admin 170B Mar 31 00:06 yaws`. When I installed from source I got another error, seems like Erlang's code. – Don Lino Apr 05 '14 at 17:44
  • Unless you're running Yaws either as the user `andrew` or as a user that's a member of the group `admin`, Yaws won't be able to see inside the `/usr/local/etc/yaws` directory because of the lack of permissions. – Steve Vinoski Apr 05 '14 at 18:23