[FreeNX-kNX] FreeNX on Solaris: HOWTO and patch

Rongsheng Fang unixlifebox at gmail.com
Fri Mar 31 02:26:06 UTC 2006


Well, the only version I saw from http://freenx.berlios.de/ is 0.4.2 
when I started playing with it a few days ago. Is 0.5 alreay out, or 
still in CVS? I will check out the cvs version.

Thanks,

Rongsheng

Sunil wrote:
> ________________________________________________________________
>          Don't forget to check the NX Knowledge Base:
>                  http://www.nomachine.com/kb/
>        Please also check the FreeNX Wiki+FAQ for hints. 
>   http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FreeNX_FAQ
> ________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
> 
> 
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> 
> why did you choose such an old version for porting?
> 
> If you had used the latest version, Fabian could potentially pull in 
> your solaris specific changes and you wouldn't need to keep applying 
> this diff for upgrades. Moreover, one of the key feature of being able 
> to resume a running session is in 0.5.
> 
> 
> */Rongsheng Fang <unixlifebox at gmail.com>/* wrote:
> 
>     ________________________________________________________________
>     Don't forget to check the NX Knowledge Base:
>     http://www.nomachine.com/kb/
>     Please also check the FreeNX Wiki+FAQ for hints.
>     http://openfacts.berlios.de/index-en.phtml?title=FreeNX_FAQ
>     ________________________________________________________________
> 
> 
>     Hi all,
> 
>     FreeNX doesn't work out of box on Sun Solaris, so I made a patch for it
>     and got it working on Solaris. The patch basically fixes some
>     not-so-portable commands or command options, which are not supported on
>     Solaris or some versions of Solaris such as `egrep -q', `ls
>     --time-style', mktemp etc, and some other little things (md5sum etc). I
>     also put together a little HOWTO here:
> 
>     http://unixlife.wordpress.com/2006/03/29/how-to-get-freenx-to-work-on-solaris/
> 
>     The patch can be downloaded from here:
> 
>     http://unixlife.yi.org/freenx/freenx-0.4.2-solaris.diff
> 
>     FreeNX is great stuff, thanks to the FreeNX team! Please keep up the
>     good work!
> 
>     Enjoy!
> 
>     Rongsheng
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