Giulio Troccoli wrote:
>>> From time to time the build failes becuase some files are not
>>> available when they are compiled. This is not strictly
>> true, the file
>>> is available but the building machine is told it's not.
>> Make sure the time on all the machines are synced with
>> something like ntpd.
>
> Could you explain to me why the time is important? It might sound as a silly question, but as I see it it's just one portion of a file system in the remote machine mounted on the file system on the building machine.
>
>>> I don't know much about NFS and the option I chose for the
>> configure
>>> script are just becuase otherwise it didn't compile. So, do
>> you guys
>>> think that even without nfsv4, gss and tcp-wrapper I would
>> achive what I need?
>> Not clear... There is a very good change running such a new
>> nfs-utils on an legacy release might cause more problem...
>
> Sorry, now that I read it again I see it's not very clear.
>
> The files on the remote machine are only read by the building machine.
> Nothing is written on the NFS mounted file system by the building
> machine. NFS is used so that we can share source code among
> differente building machines. To achive this, do I need nfsv4, gss
> and tcp-wrapper?
No. You do not need those to achive what your are looking for.
> In other words, what are nfsv4, gss and tcp-wrapper?
nfsv4 - is the latest NFS protocol version
gss - used to secure NFS mounts
tcp-wrapper - is a mechanism to allow or deny hosts access to
your NFS server.
>
> Thanks for your help, it's very much appreciated.
np..
steved.
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