On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Minh Nguyen<nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi William,
>
> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:03 PM, William Stein<wst...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 19, 2009 at 10:28 PM, Minh Nguyen<nguyenmi...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> <SNIP>
>
>>> I feel that as release manager for Sage 4.1.1, I should devote some
>>> time to fix the issues caused by including cliquer. Following our
>>> exchange on IRC last week concerning build farm for testing, I emailed
>>> you about getting accounts on bsd.math.washington.edu and a PPC OS X
>>> (G5) machine. In relation to fixing the problem caused by cliquer, one
>>> would need to debug the issue using a 64-bit OS X machine.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Unfortunately, I won't have console access to my office OS X computer
>> until next Monday, and I can't create accounts remotely, since no
>> matter how hard I try it seems impossible to create a new user in OS X
>> via the command line.  There were directions online for older versions
>> of OS X, but they don't apply to OS X 10.5.  The only page I could
>> find on 10.5 --
>> http://osxdaily.com/2007/10/29/how-to-add-a-user-from-the-os-x-command-line-works-with-leopard/
>> -- does not work at all (the very first command there fails with an
>> error).    I just spent 15 minutes googling for this problem (for the
>> fourth time in my life) with no luck.
>>
>> If there are any OS X sysadmins out there that actually know how to
>> create accounts remotely via the command line, let me know.
>> Otherwise, we'll have to wait until next Monday.
>
> OK. Sorry, I didn't mean to rush you.
>
> Kiran Kedlaya reported a problem with building cliquer under 64-bit
> Fedora 10 (see ticket #6746). Is there a 64-bit Fedora installation
> somewhere I can use in the meantime?
>

Yes, there's one in the build farm, but "unfortunately", Sage built
fine on it for us.  I even posted a binary.

 -- William

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