In the past with RH4 to 5.2, I had to try as many as 4 rpm distributions
to find one working .. I often went for compilation, but when I could
put my hand on a compatible rpm, I stick with it.
For your info I never went into the trouble of compiling the kernel,
always strait out of the box. I remember removing the background start
once, but not anymore.
So at this moment I have netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.2-2.rpm running without
problem on MDK6.1 and 6.0 .. well without problem, I mean without server
problem, so far I know quotas and drop folders do not work with my OS8.5
machines.
I`m also testing netatalk-1.4b2_asun2.1.3-6.rpm on a mdk6.0 ..
cheers
alain
>
> I just had a fun time getting AppleTalk to work. Here's some stuff I went
> through. Maybe somebody can learn from it or tell me what I did wrong.
>
> I compiled from the netatalk-1.4b2+asun2.1.3 source. I compiled
> the appletalk ddp as a module, since last i heard you had to reboot the machine
> to reset atalkd, unless ddp was a module (in which case you can just
> drop it and then load it again). make install addes /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk and
> /etc/rc.d/init.d/atalk.init. atalk just calls atalk.init. problem is that on
> boot, atalk.init is executed in the background, so afpd (the server daemon)
> doesn't load properly. fix for me, remove the '&' from atalk so atalk.init is
> executed in the foreground and everything loads properly.
>
> anybody know of other fixes for getting evrything running right? do the
> rpm's work fine? anybody tried an rpm when appletalk ddp is a module?
>
> has anybody used afpfs to mount macos8? i'll probably run into trouble
> there....
