[Wolves] Nervous breakdown

[David Goodwin]

> 
> you forget O wise one I am but mere spec on the fly that eats from the
> dung of your yak
> 
> I just use a bog standard text editor,
> 
> If only I was in the realms of the gods and could use Vi in conjunction
> with bash but Vi frightens me I had a go once but couldn't figure out
> how to do something or other and haven't used it since.
> 

Ah. If pico is installed try using it - e.g."export EDITOR=pico" then 
run "crontab -e"

It's quite intuitive, although a bit evil as it doesn't handle line 
endings too well.


>>It doesn't matter who gets what IP address, as long as they are 
>>different, and on the same subnet.
> 
> 
> I take it you mean 255.255.0.0

Yes - the subnet would be 192.168.0.0 <-> 192.168.0.255

As in -
IP - 192.168.0.X
Net Mask - 255.255.255.0
Broadcast Address - 192.168.0.255
Network Address - 192.168.0.0
Gateway - ????
Where X is > 0 and < 255.

>>OK.
>>So you have in /etc/hosts :
>>
>>192.168.0.1 fedora
>>192.168.0.99 suse
>>
>>??
> 
> Oops! not at the moment at least as far as the laptop is concerned I'll
> check the PC when I get home
> 

As i said, these aren't necessarily needed.


> 
> Ok under the GUI in suse it shows (Ooh hang on am I supposed to have
> this on both the laptop and the pc?) in my logical mind all I want to
> export is the PC share
> 

The exportfs & /etc/exports stuff needs to take place on the server.
The clients just need to run a program called "portmap" (or sometimes 
"rpc.portmap") - this is normally run on bootup.

>>
>>>If I can only mount as root surely it will tell me to get lost as user
>>>"sneyd" (Fedora) is trying to connect to "sneyd" suse?
>>
>>No. NFS will map user id's across (but you need to make sure sneyd has 
>>the same User Id on both systems for this to happen).
> 
> 
> I'll check
> 

Use "id sneyd" on each box. If the first number is the same then it's 
ok. You'll need to be root to mount the filesystem, but not to 
access/use it.

> 
> Money any use?
> 

yeah,... it buys beer, sparkly things for my wife, dog food.. and 
occasionally new bits for my mountain bike so I can get dirty on the 
weekend.

David.