[PLUG] NFS rpm installation as ROOT
Wil Cooley
wcooley at nakedape.cc
Tue Jun 29 10:56:02 UTC 2004
On Tue, 2004-06-29 at 10:46, Kevin Cosgrove wrote:
> On 29 June 2004 at 9:30, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
>
> > My hunch is that the problem isn't with RPM, but with your NFS export
> > environment.
> >
> > If you've got the default root_squash export setting, then root on the
> > NFS client looks like user nobody to the server. If nobody can't read
> > the exported files, then root on the client can't read them either.
>
> I export with no_root_squash. Here's my /etc/exports
>
> /home joseph.somewhere.com(rw,no_root_squash)
> /home 192.168.1.1(rw,no_root_squash)
> /home joseph2.somewhere.com(rw,no_root_squash)
> /home 192.168.1.2(rw,no_root_squash)
> /home music.somewhere.com(rw,no_root_squash)
> /home 192.168.1.11(rw,no_root_squash)
> /home music2.somewhere.com(rw,no_root_squash)
> /home 192.168.1.12(rw,no_root_squash)
Curious indeed.
Have you tried adding several '-v' options when you install RPMs? I
think that trick works with RPM, but I'm not sure. Have you tried
querying the packages directly, just to make sure that RPM is able to
fully read them?
Wil
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