Re: [Fink-users] fink on a nfs shared volume

2007-09-10 Thread Andrew Stewart
Bill, Yeah, I had a similar suspicion. It sounds like a good place to start anyway. I'll play around and report back anything interesting. Thanks, Andrew On Sep 8, 2007, at 12:35 AM, William Scott wrote: Hi Andrew: I think the problem is that fink writes its files as owned by root,

Re: [Fink-users] fink on a nfs shared volume

2007-09-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Andrew Stewart wrote: Bill, Yeah, I had a similar suspicion. It sounds like a good place to start anyway. I'll play around and report back anything interesting. One thing to check might be clock synchronization between the different machines involved. If I read the failed test correctly,

[Fink-users] fink on a nfs shared volume

2007-09-07 Thread Andrew Stewart
After weeks of trial and error, I think I may have shined at least a little bit of light on a problem I've been having installing fink, and am wondering if anyone can possibly shed a little more. Here's my situation. I have a couple servers that share a common filesystem (located on a

Re: [Fink-users] fink on a nfs shared volume

2007-09-07 Thread William Scott
Hi Andrew: I think the problem is that fink writes its files as owned by root, and unless you do lots of non-default stuff with NFS, you can't write to an NFS-mounted directory. (Try sudo touch /nfs/path/to/foo). I think there is a way to map root to a particular user on NFS, which is