You write:
}I've been thinking of something along these lines, too:
}I'm trying to install packages on a machine, but doc & man stuff on a
}separate machine as a server. It isn't working well so far :)
}I've had reasonable luck linking /usr/doc and /usr/man pages to the nfs
}host, but the predictable bad things happen when i then try to install
}packages--all kinds of error messages.
It seems that you have problems with installing packages, right?
Packages are installed with uid=0 aka root, right? NFS normally
sqashes root (i.e. translates uid=0 to uid=63336 for example).
Therefore you can't change permissions and the like.
Could you check out if that's the problem?
}I just don't quite understand the proper configuration for these, and
}how /bin/local interacts, etc. can someone straighten me out?
What do you mean?
}(and yes, we're blessed :) our old machines are 486/33's . . . I'm not
}sure there are any 386's left in front line use here . . .)
Oh, lucky guy. My machine for creating .deb files is a 486SX-25 :)
Regards,
Joey
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