michaelthompson

Our Power PMAC boots up in the Pacific (Los Angeles) time zone. We tried changing /etc/timezone, but that had no effect. We also tried running /usr/bin/tzselect, but that gives the following errors: [color=#FF0000] /usr/bin/tzselect: line 53: /usr/share/zoneinfo/iso3166.tab: No such file or directory /usr/bin/tzselect: time zone files are not set up correctly [/color] What method should we use in order to set the timezone?

Brad, When using the apt-get install method to install packages, I have noticed that some files get installed in the /var and /etc folders. If you test the installed application immediately, it usually works, but if you reboot the Power PMAC, all files and directories that were created in /var or /etc are lost because of the volatility of those folders. I have been using rsync -av to sync up /etc and /var with /.readonly/etc and /.readonly/var. Is that the procedure that you recommend, or is there another procedure which should be used? P.S. Note that I needed to apt-get install rsync since it was not installed by default.

[quote='bradp' pid='1021' dateline='1294428925'] What you need to do is get the smbfs update. To do this follow the instructions in this thread http://forums.deltatau.com/showthread.php?tid=83&highlight=resolv Once you get the PPmac talking to the web, which you can check by ping www.yahoo.com then the update to: apt-get update apt-get install smbfs [/quote] Brad, I was able to resolve the proxy problems by specifying my proxy via the http_proxy environment variable. The following commands allowed me to install the mount.smbfs and mount.cifs files. mount -o remount,rw / env http_proxy=http://[i]username[/i]:[i]password[/i]@[i]proxyserver[/i]:[i]proxyport[/i]/ apt-get install smbfs mount -o remount,ro / This then enabled me to specify the server name rather than its IP address on the mount -t cifs command line. Problem resolved.

Brad, Our Power PMAC is set up on a secured network. As it is presently configured, the request would need to go through a proxy server to get to the Internet, and that server requires authentication. How do I set that up? Mike

Yes. I can ping the server by name from the Power PMAC and it is properly resolved by our DNS. Note that all of the similar reports on the Internet for other versions of Linux point toward the /sbin/mount.cifs requirement.

I was only able to get the CIFS mount to work by specifying the IP address of my server: mount -t cifs -o username=uuuuuu,password=pppppp,domain=dddddd //xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx/sharename /media/share If I replace the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx with the server name, I get a return code of -22. Online searches suggest that I need to have /sbin/mount.cifs. There exists a /sbin/mount.nfs, but no /sbin/mount.cifs. Can you help?

This is mostly an informational post for the benefit of other users. We were able to successfully modify /opt/etc/network/interfaces to use DHCP instead of static IP address setup (as identified in other posts on this forum). However, after reboot, we found that we could no longer communicate with the Power PMAC. The Power PMAC had been automatically assigned a new IP address (as we had hoped), but its hostname was not registered with our DNS servers. We were therefore unable to discover its IP address (which also meant that we could not communicate with it). Delta Tau support explained that we could use the serial port to observe the boot up process and, ultimately, reach a login prompt. For the serial port access, a proper RS232 cable is needed and the baud rate that worked was 115K Baud. Once we had the serial port connected (using Tera Term), we could identify in the logged output the IP address that was assigned. After further investigation, we discovered that the hostname which is registered with the DNS server must be specified in /.readonly/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf as follows: send host-name "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx.yourdomain.com"; where xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is the hostname of the Power PMAC. Once the change to /.readonly/etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf was made, we used the reboot command to reboot the Power PMAC. A minute or so after the Power PMAC received its automatically assigned IP address, we were able to discover it by name using ping, telnet, ftp, and other commands. However, we are not able to specify the hostname in the IDE. It only seems to accept IP addresses. [b]Q. Will the IDE (and Comm Library functions) eventually support the use of hostnames instead of IP addresses?[/b]