From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 1 09:41:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 337721065698 for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:41:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from mailer.gwdg.de (mailer.gwdg.de [134.76.10.26]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD71F8FC0C for ; Mon, 1 Sep 2008 09:41:11 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kheuer2@gwdg.de) Received: from gwdu60.gwdg.de ([134.76.8.60]) by mailer.gwdg.de with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ka5uH-0000KB-RN; Mon, 01 Sep 2008 11:41:10 +0200 Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 11:41:09 +0200 (CEST) From: Konrad Heuer To: "O. Hartmann" In-Reply-To: <48BBB022.4030708@zedat.fu-berlin.de> Message-ID: <20080901113702.U877@gwdu60.gwdg.de> References: <48BBB022.4030708@zedat.fu-berlin.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Level: - X-Virus-Scanned: (clean) by exiscan+sophie Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linux, LDAP and the impossibility of handling editable PDFs X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:41:12 -0000 On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, O. Hartmann wrote: > Several months ago I tried configuring the Linuxulator on several FreeBSD 7.X > boxes, most of them pure amd64 and pure 64 bit (as it is possible with Intels > pseudo 64 bit crap). The reason for that is simple. Having FreeBSD (now > 7.1-PRE) as my favorite OS on servers AND hybrid boxes (acting as > workstations AND small servers) makes life easy - I thought and was touhgt > wrong. > Our administration sends a lot of PDFs around and as it is very usual, our > applications, forms and so on for scientific congresses etc. are all PDF and > subject to be edited. And here it comes that FreeBSD seems to be a definite > deadend! > Using pdfedit is wrong, it can't show or edit any PDF we obtained so far. > Using 'pdftk' fails, it is not made to run in modern 64 bit environments only > when using FreeBSD (linux seems to have no problem, especially Ubuntu does > the thing). So, then I remembered myself about Linuxulator and tried > acrobatviewer - and failed. As in other professional environments we were far > away from using simple user management and therefore there is a LDAP > environment. And, funny, Linuxulator does not contact LDAP even if I try to > configure it to use our LDAP environment. Digging around what flavor of Linux > FreeBSD installs (means: do al ot of work), reading about how to use PAM and > LDAP on Linux (means: doing again additional work in an environment I try to > avoid!) and at last no success, because something is missing or the > Linuxulator should use something for user authentication and autorization it > does not have and uses therefore the FreeBSD stuff and then fails. Especially > for the Acrobat weirdness (or call it software) something like this occurs > whenn attempting starting acrobat reader: > > (acroread:18831): GLib-WARNING **: getpwuid_r(): failed due to unknown user > id (2001) > > (acroread:18831): Gdk-WARNING **: shmget failed: error 12 (Cannot allocate > memory) > > > If there is someone here running a 64 bit environment within a LDAP realm and > already got successfully running the Linux add ons as expected for LDAP > users, you are really welcome to give me some hints how to turn around my > frustration and thoughts about definitely leaving the FreeBSD path ... I use a simple workaround to make the Adobe reader (and some other Linux binaries) work - I simply added following entries to the crontab file of root: 00 05 * * * /usr/bin/getent passwd | /usr/bin/sed '1,/nobody/d' > /usr/compat/linux/etc/passwd 2> /dev/null 15 05 * * * /usr/bin/getent group > /usr/compat/linux/etc/group 2> /dev/null Hope that helps a little bit ... Best regards Konrad Heuer GWDG, Am Fassberg, 37077 Goettingen, Germany, kheuer2@gwdg.de