Hi,
I installed giFT and gift-openft.
I also did gift-setup and read everything!
But when I do giftd it says:
*** ERROR: Your setup is incomplete ***

You will need to run gift-setup and be sure that you read absolutely
every configuration option (no, really). Some default configuration
values are considered illegal, and will raise this error message. If you
suspect that you have configured giFT properly, consult the conf files in
(null) for diagnostic purposes.

If you are still having problems you should consult the QUICKSTART guide
available from the standard giFT distribution.


I did gift-setup several times, still doesent work.
Here the configs:
giftd.conf.template
[main]

# Boolean determining whether or not this file has been reviewed and is
# complete. giFT will fail to start unless this is non-zero. This is done
# so that we can make sure you, at the very least, read through this file.
# Default: 0
setup = 1

# Space separated list of hosts to allow connection to giFT's interface
# protocol (running default on port 1213). This protocol is used for GUIs
# to communicate with giFT and could be considered a security risk to allow
# external connections.
# The following special keywords are supported:
# ALL - synonym for 0.0.0.0/0
# LOCAL - synonym for 127.0.0.0/8 192.168.0.0/16 172.0.0.0/11 10.0.0.0/8
# Bitwidth fields are optional
# Default: LOCAL
hosts_allow = LOCAL

# Port on which to listen for user interface connections. Unless you have a
# special need to talk to the client on a non-standard port, just accept the
# default.
# NOTE:
# If you change this value, you will also need to modify the ui.conf
# configuration for the machine which will be making outgoing connections
# here.
client_port = 1213

# Determines whether or not to follow symbolic links. If this value is set
# non-zero, symlinks will be traversed and a directory inode tracking system
# will be used to ensure that giFT does not descend the same directory
# twice. If you do not have any symlinks or do not want them traversed, set
# this to 0 for a very minor efficiency gain.
# Windows users: this setting has no effect.
# Default: 1
follow_symlinks = 1

# Colon separated list of protocol plugins to load by default. If dynamic
# library support is enabled, the plugin specified will be stat'd to check if
# it is a loadable path. If that fails, the fallback method is to attempt to
# construct the fully qualified path based on the configured environment.
# NOTES:
# Without dynamic library support, this plugin must have been compiled into
# your giFT binary. With, this plugin must exist in the installed
# plugin directory. giFT -V will output this path to you, if you are not
# sure.
# Protocol names are case sensitive, so use OpenFT, not Openft.
# For example, to use the OpenFT and Gnutella protocols use:
# OpenFT:Gnutella
# Default: none
plugins = OpenFT

###############################################################################
# DOWNLOAD CONTROLS

[download]

# Directory to store transfers while they are being operated on. Temporary
# state files are also kept here. It is recommended, but not required, that
# the incoming and completed directories are on the same partition (drive).
# Windows users: please use the following path specification:
# incoming = /C/Program Files/giFT/incoming
# For example, to refer to C:\Program Files\giFT\incoming, use:
# incoming = /C/Program Files/giFT/incoming
# Default (*nix): ~/.giFT/incoming
# Default (Windows): /C/Program Files/giFT/incoming
incoming = ~/.giFT/incoming

# Directory which will contain files after they have successfully finished
# downloading.
# Default (*nix): ~/.giFT/completed
# Default (Windows): /C/Program Files/giFT/completed
completed = ~/.giFT/completed

###############################################################################
# SHARE SUBMISSION AND UPLOAD CONTROL

[sharing]

# Maximum amount of uploads allowed from the same user at any given time. It
# is recommended that you keep this at 1 in order to prevent users from
# unfairly queueing your connection.
# Default: 1
max_peruser_uploads = 1

# Determines whether or not to hide directories which contain a leading dot.
# These directories are commonly meant to be "hidden" and thus should not be
# submitted to the network. Selecting 0 here will submit all directories.
# Default: 1
hide_dot_files = 1

# Colon separated list of fully qualified paths you wish to share. These
# directories will be recursed at giFT's startup and the files contained
# within will be subjected to an MD5 hashing. The results will be cached and
# will only be recalculated on a per share basis when the size or
# modification time in the cache and on disk disagree, or the file name is
# changed.
# Sanity notice:
# Do NOT share source directories! Remote nodes will refuse to index your
# shares if you are attempting to submit more than 64000 files.
# Security notice:
# Do not share directories which may contain sensitive information, such as
# ~ ($HOME). Also note that any directories shared here will be stripped of
# all but the last path element when submitted to other nodes for indexing,
# effectively "hiding" the directory prefix.
# Windows users: please use the following path specification:
# /[drive]/dir1/dir2:/[drive]/dir3/dir4 ...
# For example, to refer to C:\Program Files\giFT\shares and D:\shares, use:
# /C/Program Files/giFT/shares:/D/shares
# Default: none
root =

# Maximum amount of simultaneous uploads allowed. Setting this to -1 will
# cause giFT to not limit outgoing transfers. 0 effectively disables sharing.
# This may also be handled at run time via your GUI of choice.
# Default: -1
max_uploads = 1

# Controls when giFT periodically rescans your shared directories for any
# changes (new files, missing files, changed files, etc.) and communicates
# those changes to the underlying protocols. This parameter specifies how
# often (in seconds) you want that to happen.
# For your reference
# 0 turns off periodic auto-resync
# 3600 one hour
# 86400 one day
# 604800 one week
# Default: 86400
auto_resync_interval = 3600

# Controls whether or not giFT should automatically share files that you have
# finished downloading. This feature significantly improves the network's
# abundance of files and helps ease the load on those sharing popular files.
# It's a Good Thing (TM), please leave it on.
# Avoid setting your completed directories through sharing/root, as that
# setting will duplicate recursion of the completed directory and cause
# generally undesirable results.
# Default: 1
share_completed = 1

###############################################################################
# USER SPACE BANDWIDTH CONTROL

[bandwidth]

# Bandwidth throttling allows giFT to have some basic control over your
# bandwidth usage. This code operates in user space, and as a result can not
# guarantee perfect accuracy. If you wish to use this feature, please
# consider using a more reliable kernel space option first. As always, google
# should be able to assist you there.
# The following configuration switches control the maximum number of bytes
# per second allowed for the given stream direction. A setting of 0 will
# disable throttling for that direction.
# Default: 0
downstream = 0
upstream = 0

and OpenFT.conf.template
[main]

# Node classification. This value is very important and will determine your
# potential role on the network. The following settings are allowed:
# 1 (USER)
# Basic class that all nodes implicitly belong to. This node will maintain
# very few TCP connections on the network and perform almost no tasks other
# than to upload to other users. Users who do not have direct Internet
# connections will be forced into this class.
# 3 (SEARCH)
# Responsible for manging indexes of a large group of directly connected
# children (run-time modifier for the USER class), responding to and
# forwarding search requests from peers, as well as directing push requests
# so that indirectly connected users may still share files.
# Please note that this class will require a much greater amount of both
# local and network resources. If you select this, pay very close attention
# to the database environment settings several configuration options down.
# For reference, there are several fully functioning search nodes on
# "average" broadband connections, such as 768/128kbit (my node *sigh*).
# Keeping your node up-to-date is absolutely essential for this node class.
# Please consider updating at least once a week.
# 5 (INDEX)
# Meta node used in favor of user nodes when attempting new connections to
# the network. This node class is also responsible for managing statistics
# information for the virtual clusters created by SEARCH nodes. Reliability
# is the largest requirement here.
# If you're unsure it is highly recommended that you select 1 (the default).
# A setting of 7 will select both a SEARCH and INDEX node.
class = 1

# Core listening port. OpenFT uses a compacted binary protocol for the core
# communication with other nodes. If this machine is unable to provide both
# port and http_port to the outside directly (blocked by either by a firewall
# or a NAT setup) you should select 0 here.
# NOTE:
# If you are unable to route this port (along with the HTTP port) you will be
# unable to download from other users with that same inability. You will,
# however, maintain the ability to upload to other non-firewalled users.
# Selecting non-zero when the port is not available to the outside will cause
# very broken behaviour, namely search results will be extremely unreliable.
port = 1486

# HTTP server port. OpenFT's implementation also makes use of HTTP for all
# file transfers. See above for more details. Please provide a valid port
# here regardless of your firewall state.
http_port = 2817

# Arbitrary name you'd like to associate with your node. This field is
# optional and it is NOT to be trusted. The name is not unique to the
# network. Please do not choose useless aliases.
alias = apollon

###############################################################################
# NODEPAGE OPTIONS

[nodepage]

# If set non-zero, OpenFT will not allow remote hosts to access the nodepage.
# This option also depends on local/hosts_allow shown below. For the
# interest of debugging I suggest you just leave this as is.
private = 0

###############################################################################
# SEARCH NODE SETTINGS

[search]

# Maximum number of "child" nodes you are able to support. You should not
# touch this unless you know what you're doing.
# NOTE:
# This option has no effect unless you configure as a SEARCH node.
children = 500

# Absolute path where the search database environment should be stored. Make
# sure to provide a path with plenty of hard disk space (~100-300MB) and on a
# device with efficient hard drive access to improve access time when
# swapping cannot be avoided.
# NOTE:
# As always, this path is in UNIX format, so Windows users will need to
# hack around this accordingly. If you aren't sure what I mean by this, you
# need to go back and read gift.conf documentation.
env_path = ~/.giFT/OpenFT/db

# Total cache size for the entire search database environment. The idea is
# to find a perfect balance here between disk access and memory usage, which
# we are still widely experimenting with. If you have a lot of RAM to
# dedicate to your search node, by all means increase this number accordingly
# as it will improve overall performance.
# WARNING:
# Specifications less than 500MB (and we expect you will specify less than
# that) are subject to a 20% inflation due to some libdb implementation
# detail.
# NOTE:
# Units are specified in bytes, and as such you will not be allowed to
# specify 1GB or higher. While libdb supports this, the API is more obscure
# than this simple configuration option, hopefully the configuration will
# be extended at some point to support this.
env_cache = 83886080

# Controls whether or not the database environment is private. If the
# database environment is private, you will be unable to use the database
# tools provided by the libdb util package. This will make it almost to gain
# memory pool statistics for the entire process and makes tweaking of the
# search code almost impossible. However, most users will want this turned
# on as it will create a rather large temporary swap file in the database
# directory otherwise.
env_priv = 0

###############################################################################
# LAN MODE FACILITIES

[local]

# OpenFT offers a special configuration for users who wish to operate a
# network from within a local area network (LAN). This mode causes giFT to
# reject authorization from any non-local address as well as advertising it's
# presence via the local UDP broadcast. If this switch is non-zero you will
# not be able to contact the main network.
lan_mode = 0

# When LAN mode is enabled, this configuration switch is used to verify
# which hosts are allowed connection to the core OpenFT port. It is
# highly recommended that you just don't touch this, regardless of what
# lan_mode's value is.
# NOTE:
# This switch provides a very crude loophole that could allow you to create
# a "private" OpenFT network between a list of known nodes. Using this
# "feature" is going to be quite cumbersome as it is intended to be used
# by developers only. You have been warned.
#hosts_allow = LOCAL

Sorry, I know its very long, but I never installed a P2P Program on Linux and I have to download some songs for a friend.
Thanks

Rename the config file to giftd.conf

Cheers, Leon.

I think, it's because on the VERY FIRST option of gift-setup you haven't entered a non-zero value. Let me guess, you just pressed return. They make it so that gift-setup is not complete unless you at least READ the whole of the gift-setup process. To ensure this the very first answer defaults to zero but needs you to put it as a 1 (or anything non-zero) to continue. It looks like you've done it for that user, but have you done it for the user (perhaps root?) who's actually running the gift daemon?

the problem is this section:

# Colon separated list of fully qualified paths you wish to share. These
# directories will be recursed at giFT's startup and the files contained
# within will be subjected to an MD5 hashing. The results will be cached and
# will only be recalculated on a per share basis when the size or
# modification time in the cache and on disk disagree, or the file name is
# changed.
# Sanity notice:
# Do NOT share source directories! Remote nodes will refuse to index your
# shares if you are attempting to submit more than 64000 files.
# Security notice:
# Do not share directories which may contain sensitive information, such as
# ~ ($HOME). Also note that any directories shared here will be stripped of
# all but the last path element when submitted to other nodes for indexing,
# effectively "hiding" the directory prefix.
# Windows users: please use the following path specification:
# /[drive]/dir1/dir2:/[drive]/dir3/dir4 ...
# For example, to refer to C:\Program Files\giFT\shares and D:\shares, use:
# /C/Program Files/giFT/shares:/D/shares
# Default: none
root =

you need to enter a path for sharing.