CFS and Linux

Is there anyone out there that has CFS running with Linux ?

It installs fine on BSDi 2.0 but I'm unable to install it 
under Linux, I would appreciate it if some one would help
me out.

 -AJ-

On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Alex de Joode wrote:

> Is there anyone out there that has CFS running with Linux ?
> 
> It installs fine on BSDi 2.0 but I'm unable to install it 
> under Linux, I would appreciate it if some one would help
> me out.

I've got it running fine under Linux.  To do this, you have to do several
things:

(1) Use RPC with the 'old style file' option, whatever that is...
(2) Edit out the _'s from the RPC-generated files
(3) Use the modified make command included in the README.

I, for one, hope that Matt Blaze fixes (or at least automates :)) these 
quirks in the new version due out RSN...

Jon Lasser
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On Wed, 20 Dec 1995, Alex de Joode wrote:

> Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1995 20:15:14 +0100 (MET)
> From: Alex de Joode <usura@berserk.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: CFS and Linux
> 
> 
> Is there anyone out there that has CFS running with Linux ?
> 
> It installs fine on BSDi 2.0 but I'm unable to install it 
> under Linux, I would appreciate it if some one would help
> me out.


i don't think i can help you at all but i do have it running on my linux 
box.  i compiled it as ELF with gcc 2.7.0 and libc 5.0.9.  unfortunately, 
i just tried to compile it again and it didn't work.  i'm not sure what 
i've changed since then but i have updated some libraries and bin-utils 
so who knows.

anyway, i know other people have it running too, it just seems really 
touchy to me.

sorry for the lack of info/help,

-pjf

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> 
> Is there anyone out there that has CFS running with Linux ?
> 
> It installs fine on BSDi 2.0 but I'm unable to install it 
> under Linux, I would appreciate it if some one would help
> me out.
> 
>  -AJ-

I don't run Linux, and every time I open my mouth it seems to provoke
a flame-fest, but I'll risk responding anyway.

I'm told that all version of CFS since 1.0.4 (the latest is 1.3.1)
do work out-of-the-box under *some* releases of Linux and with some
coaxing on the others.

I'm not sure exactly what problem you're having, but the most common
CFS-Linux problem that people complain about has to do with the rpcgen
output not being in the format expected by the rest of CFS.  There
seem to be two things you can do about this:  get a version of rpcgen
that generates the "standard" (original Sun) names for the functions it
generates, or just grab the rpcgen output from the cfs-users mailing list
archive ("echo help | mail cfs-users-request@research att.com" for details).

Or are you able to compile it but not get it installed?  I've not heard
of any problems here.  If so, you might try the cfs-users@research.att.com
mailing list and see if someone there can help out.

-matt

NB to "Bill Gates" and friends:  To save you the trouble of pointing it out,
I hereby admit that I'm a commie-fascist brainwashed sold out member of the
military-industrial complex who has been programmed by his masters to
infiltrate the cypherpunks in order to sap and impurify their precious
bodily fluids.

> 
> > 
> > Is there anyone out there that has CFS running with Linux ?
> > 
> > It installs fine on BSDi 2.0 but I'm unable to install it 
> > under Linux, I would appreciate it if some one would help
> > me out.
> > 
> >  -AJ-
> 
> I don't run Linux, and every time I open my mouth it seems to provoke
> a flame-fest, but I'll risk responding anyway.
> 
> I'm told that all version of CFS since 1.0.4 (the latest is 1.3.1)
> do work out-of-the-box under *some* releases of Linux and with some
> coaxing on the others.
> 
> I'm not sure exactly what problem you're having, but the most common
> CFS-Linux problem that people complain about has to do with the rpcgen
> output not being in the format expected by the rest of CFS.  There
> seem to be two things you can do about this:  get a version of rpcgen
> that generates the "standard" (original Sun) names for the functions it
> generates, or just grab the rpcgen output from the cfs-users mailing list
> archive ("echo help | mail cfs-users-request@research att.com" for details).
> 

I would like to thank all people who gave me pointers; with the
help of my sysadmin at Utopia we were able to compile and install it.

two comments for matt thoo:

 1: please make it install 'out-of-the-box' on Linux.

 2: please rename the ssh shell programm, 
    it did overwrite my ssh/slogin programm.

All things said; thanks for really wonderfull programm.

 -AJ-

ps: Merry Xmas and a Happy NewYear 2all !

>two comments for matt thoo:
>  1: please make it install 'out-of-the-box' on Linux.
> 

I'd love to.  It isn't that simple.  No one has ever told me exactly what
"the Linux problem" is or even convinced me that a problem actually exists.

I don't run Linux.  People who do run Linux are divided between telling
me it that does run out-of-the-box and that it doesn't.  ALL I can do is
pass on patches that the people who run CFS under Linux give me.  My
understanding is that CFS does run out-of-the-box under some of the
all-too-many varieties of Linux, but that it depends very much on your
particular configuration (particularly your rpcgen version).  Some
configurations require some tweeking.  If you want to see CFS supported
out-of-the-box on a particular platform, someone has to tell me about it
and supply me with the fixes, which I will galdly wrap into the distribution.
Requests that I make something work on a platform that I don't have and
don't control are very frustrating.

Anyway, this is the wrong list for this.  Linux issues come up every now and
then on the cfs-users mailing list (cfs-users-request@research.att.com;
subscription info included in the distribution).

-matt

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Matt Blaze writes:
> [...]
> I'm not sure exactly what problem you're having, but the most common
> CFS-Linux problem that people complain about has to do with the rpcgen
> output not being in the format expected by the rest of CFS.  There
> seem to be two things you can do about this:  get a version of rpcgen
> that generates the "standard" (original Sun) names for the functions it
> generates, or just grab the rpcgen output from the cfs-users mailing list
> archive ("echo help | mail cfs-users-request@research att.com" for details).

You can get the original Sun ONC RPC 4.0 code, including rpcgen, from:

    ftp://bcm.tmc.edu/nfs/rpc_40.*

It also used to be at:

    ftp://wuarchive.wustl.edu/systems/sun/sun-exchange/rpc4.0

but this server is so busy that I can't verify this URL right now.

> NB to "Bill Gates" and friends:  To save you the trouble of pointing it out,
> I hereby admit that I'm a commie-fascist brainwashed sold out member of the
> military-industrial complex who has been programmed by his masters to
> infiltrate the cypherpunks in order to sap and impurify their precious
> bodily fluids.

You left out the part about helping to cover up the UFO abductions...

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