On Tue, 3 Nov 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 03, 1998 at 12:11:20PM -0500, Sergey V Kovalyov wrote: > > Even more wierd: > > I have a server and a client, the client mounts /usr via nfs from server; > > /var is local, the rest is syncronized via cfengine. > > /etc/init.d/xfstt start > > works on the server, does not on the client. Just xfstt works everywhere. > > > > Any idea what the so subtle difference between these machines might be? > > > > Ahhh.... > well this si a FIXME of sorts) :) > > xfstt currently requires write acess to a font database it stores > (which by all rights should be in /var) as it stands this is in > the same directory as the fonts... Yep, I've just come to the same conclusion. And you can guess I mount /usr ro. > > this same thing happens when you run xfstt as a normal user. With NFS on > you probably have root_squash on (which is the default) so root > on the client can not write tot he database! > > sorry for the inconvinece...I should work on this! > > any ideas on where the font database should be? How about /var/cache/xfstt ? Sergey.
