Autofs with LDAP IS problematic. I’ve switched to mounting /home directory upon host bootup. Looks simplier and more stable.
Category: Technology
I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.
LDAP, NFS, autmount
Test LDAP machine installed today. Test NFS (for homes) installed today. Automount of user’s home directory upon login gives a hell a lot of problems. We’ll see how it goes.
Coding and learning
Coding indeed happens. More LDAP knowledge gained today.
Unicode in Linux
Installed RT bugraq/ticketing system for our developers. Seems to work as good as it does for our support team.
Another step to the victory with Unicode support in both X and console. Today I’ve managed to fix the pseudographics (think mc) in console. It looks much better now. Even displays russian characters in mutt. Does not let me input them yet, though. Most updated /etc/sysconfig/i18n looks like this now:
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 LANG=en_US.utf8 LC_LOCALE=ru_RU.utf8 LC_CTYPE=ru_RU.utf8 LC_MESSAGES=en_US.utf8 SYSFONT=ruscii_8x16
Playing with KDE from CVS
I’ve been busy lately playing with KDE’s CVS. I must say that it’s not that easy to compile as that to what I’ve got used to, but it runs. I especially enjoy those menu shades. I really wish it was possible to do something similar for panels and application windows. Direction of the shade should also be configurable