Hi, I want to mount /sw from NFS, so I can share fink and all the packages that I install across a lab of machines.
After creating the automount, and mounting /sw, I can run apps (ie: xfree, lyx) without any problems. However I cannot install software. This is because the nfs server will not me to write as root to the mount. I looked into "no_root_squash", however this appears to be a little dangerous - if someone cracked a lab machine, they could have root write privelages to the /sw mount point. With this in mind, I tried "chmod -R g+w" in /sw, hoping that I could have write access via the "admin" group. However the locking mechanism in dpkg seems to be a bit "smarter" than I thought, and still complains about not being able to create a lock file. Is there anyway around this? The only solution I can see now is to run two concurrent /sw's. A "dev" /sw running on a local machine, which I periodically copy to the nfs server to export (read: deploy) to the macintosh lab. Thanks for any ideas anyone might have on this. Ian. -- Ian Cumming, [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected." -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
