Damion,
Appreciate the speedy response. I am happy to wait and see what
progress you make next week with the 7.1 port.
With a machine on the bench looking for a home I just needed to
know how long to keep it there :-)
It's crying out to go back to its rack!
regards
Petar
----- Original Message -----
From: "Damion Parry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2001 8:23 PM
Subject: Re: Where is freeVSD-1.4.8-1 RPM for 7.1?
> Hello,
>
> The official statement from the man doing the porting is that I am
> having troubles applying the freevsd patch to the version of glibc
> supplied with RH 7.1. Without this patched glibc the skel generated
> causes all sorts of problems with the virtual servers (for one, the
> prompt says the name of the hosting server and not that of the virtual
> server). This is at the top of my to-do list, and would hope to have a
> fix for the early part of next week.
>
> However, compiling the source on a RH 7.1 box, and using a pre-generated
> RH 6.2 skel seems to work fine, its just that you end up with RH 6.2
> virtual servers. Is this acceptable? The only other thing with this
> approach is that iptables support is not in the freevsd 1.4.8 code. If
> you wish to utilise iptables, you would need to disable vsd-redirect for
> each virtual server and manually configure the rules for each vs.
>
> I shall be announcing the availablity of the RPMS as soon as I have
> third party packages that work.
>
> Apologies,
> Damion.
>
> Petar Nikolich wrote:
> >
> > Can we get an official statement from the guru developers as
> > to a likely timeline on its appearance?
> >
> > Would *really* like to commission a 7.1 server with freevsd
> > in a easily reproduceable fashion ;-)
> >
> > If it is only hours/days away then I can wait. If weeks/months
> > then will need to do something else.
> >
> > ..Petar
