few questions from Lunar-newbie

Auke Kok sofar at lunar-linux.org
Tue Mar 23 22:54:13 GMT 2004


Remco Lubbers wrote:
> I'm setting up one of my servers with Lunar now, just to check out Lunar as a
> server distro (anybody have any experience with that in an ISP-environment?)

Ik draai lunar lunar bij ESA in noordwijk ;^), not really an ISP 
environment but it's performing backbone functions for the local network 
of the department I work at.

> I have a few questions, which I intended to post on the forum, but I think it's
> not too busy, since my first question has been viewed once in the past 2 days
> (and that one is probably me ;-) :

The forum is kinda low-bandwidth, lots of information there doesn't get 
read, the mailinglist has many more eyes, most subscribed people really 
read them.

> Hmmm, weird, yesterday PHP gave me trouble compiling with curl-support, but
> just now it worked ????

curl isa pain in the ass with the new php, I just had to compile php 
without curl support today to get it working. IOW it's a known problem 
we haven't seen a solution for.

> Anyway, Another thing I had was during the installation of NTP, but all the way
> at the end, this is what happens:
> [output]
> Creating /var/log/lunar/compile/ntp-4.2.0.bz2 
> Creating /var/log/lunar/install/ntp-4.2.0
> Creating /var/log/lunar/md5sum/ntp-4.2.0
> Creating /var/cache/lunar/ntp-4.2.0-i686-pc-linux-gnu.tar.bz2
> gawk: cmd. line:1: fatal: division by zero attempted 
> low ping time servers have been added to  /etc/ntp.conf
> [/output]
 >
> The gawk error get's repeated about 25 times, before the low ping message
> appears.
> ntp seems to work fine and it's source is deleted from /usr/src , so it's
> probably some postinstall thingy, but I just don't like errors and can't make
> this one out.Anybody have any ideas?

the POST_INSTALL tries to fill your ntp.conf with default servers, I 
suspect there's something wrong with that algorithm, I'm sure that will 
get picked up, thanks for letting us know.

sofar


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