Re: [Fink-devel] user and group handling

2003-08-11 Thread Charles Lepple
On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 10:01 PM, TheSin wrote: some pkgs require a pass that is known, ie mysql From mysql.info: DescUsage: << The package creates the administrative tables on installation. Be sure to set a MySQL root password using mysqladmin: 'mysqladmin -u root password your-new-passw

Re: [Fink-devel] user and group handling

2003-08-11 Thread TheSin
some pkgs require a pass that is known, ie mysql, but maybe I could set it to ask if the passwd eq ask if that suits? you can' sudo or su to a user that doesn't have a shell. you can execute things as that user using sudo -u but that is it. and that won't help you login to things like cyradmin

Re: [Fink-devel] glut, X11 1.0 and Panther

2003-08-11 Thread David R. Morrison
John, I'm aware of this issue, and have reported it to Apple. Hopefully it will get fixed before Panther is released. In the meantime, adding the following two lines after "xmkmf" in your CompileScript should fix the problem: mv Makefile Makefile.old sed "s|-arch i386||g" < Makefile.old > Mak

Re: [Fink-devel] new user branch

2003-08-11 Thread Charles Lepple
TheSin said: > but this is why I'm posting the list, I need ideas for this sort of > thing, I have most of the major stuff worked out, like not needed a db > for uids I must have missed this-- how does this work? (or do I have to UTSL?) > On Monday, August 11, 2003, at 11:40 AM, Chris Dolan wrote

RE: [Fink-devel] perl scripts

2003-08-11 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I would imagine they could go into any directory that's in the PATH (e.g. /sw/bin /usr/local/bin, ~/bin). If this is something that you plan on putting out as part of the general fink distribution, then you could put it in a subdirectory, e.g. /sw/foo/bin, and then instruct the user in the descrip