On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, O. Hartmann wrote:
Several months ago I tried configuring the Linuxulator on several FreeBSD 7.X
boxes, most of them pure amd64 and pure 64 bit (as it is possible with Intels
pseudo 64 bit crap). The reason for that is simple. Having FreeBSD (now
7.1-PRE) as my favorite OS on servers AND hybrid boxes (acting as
workstations AND small servers) makes life easy - I thought and was touhgt
wrong.
Our administration sends a lot of PDFs around and as it is very usual, our
applications, forms and so on for scientific congresses etc. are all PDF and
subject to be edited. And here it comes that FreeBSD seems to be a definite
deadend!
Using pdfedit is wrong, it can't show or edit any PDF we obtained so far.
Using 'pdftk' fails, it is not made to run in modern 64 bit environments only
when using FreeBSD (linux seems to have no problem, especially Ubuntu does
the thing). So, then I remembered myself about Linuxulator and tried
acrobatviewer - and failed. As in other professional environments we were far
away from using simple user management and therefore there is a LDAP
environment. And, funny, Linuxulator does not contact LDAP even if I try to
configure it to use our LDAP environment. Digging around what flavor of Linux
FreeBSD installs (means: do al ot of work), reading about how to use PAM and
LDAP on Linux (means: doing again additional work in an environment I try to
avoid!) and at last no success, because something is missing or the
Linuxulator should use something for user authentication and autorization it
does not have and uses therefore the FreeBSD stuff and then fails. Especially
for the Acrobat weirdness (or call it software) something like this occurs
whenn attempting starting acrobat reader:
(acroread:18831): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user
id (2001)
(acroread:18831): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate
memory)
If there is someone here running a 64 bit environment within a LDAP realm and
already got successfully running the Linux add ons as expected for LDAP
users, you are really welcome to give me some hints how to turn around my
frustration and thoughts about definitely leaving the FreeBSD path ...
I use a simple workaround to make the Adobe reader (and some other Linux
binaries) work - I simply added following entries to the crontab file of
root:
00 05 * * * /usr/bin/getent passwd | /usr/bin/sed '1,/nobody/d' >
/usr/compat/linux/etc/passwd 2> /dev/null
15 05 * * * /usr/bin/getent group > /usr/compat/linux/etc/group 2> /dev/null
Hope that helps a little bit ...
Best regards
Konrad Heuer
GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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