Comments for a wily blog http://www.wilyness.com/blog "they were concerned because of his wilyness." -Dana Priest, Washington Post Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:18:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Comment on Fix for preupgrade-cli on Fedora 12 by Peter Price http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137&cpage=1#comment-10922 Peter Price Mon, 16 Aug 2010 09:18:01 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137#comment-10922 Thanks ! That worked. Thanks ! That worked.

]]> Comment on Miscellaneous Solaris build problems by Geoff http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=125&cpage=1#comment-10826 Geoff Thu, 12 Aug 2010 20:08:57 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=125#comment-10826 "I have high hopes that Google will index this properly and find it for a poor head-scratching soul with similar frustrations." Mission accomplished. Thanks for the hack. :) “I have high hopes that Google will index this properly and find it for a poor head-scratching soul with similar frustrations.”

Mission accomplished. Thanks for the hack. :)

]]> Comment on Fix for preupgrade-cli on Fedora 12 by Andrew Meredith http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137&cpage=1#comment-10325 Andrew Meredith Sat, 17 Jul 2010 17:46:03 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137#comment-10325 Please see: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615640 Please see:

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=615640

]]> Comment on Fix for preupgrade-cli on Fedora 12 by Andrew Meredith http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137&cpage=1#comment-10320 Andrew Meredith Sat, 17 Jul 2010 14:52:21 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137#comment-10320 Nice catch m8. Thanks for publishing. Nice catch m8. Thanks for publishing.

]]> Comment on Fix for preupgrade-cli on Fedora 12 by Prabhat Kumar http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137&cpage=1#comment-10288 Prabhat Kumar Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:44:25 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=137#comment-10288 Thanks buddy its working. Thanks buddy its working.

]]> Comment on An article about the costs of US healthcare by Daniel http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=106&cpage=1#comment-5820 Daniel Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:35:33 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=106#comment-5820 Ah, this is new information to me. This conflict between sending our very best or our most "average Joe" to government comes up pretty regularly. As far as I can remember, every presidential election involves some questioning on which candidate can "feel your pain" or represent "the American people." We poll on which candidate we would "most like to have a beer with" or "have dinner with." We want our candidate to be the most capable, but we are mistrustful of those from "elite schools." I also note that loose confederations have been largely unsuccessful (e.g., League of Nations, Confederate States of America) even though they were founded by members who were sick of strong authority. Wasn't Washington (of the cherry tree) a respectably strong central authority. (I was never that good at history.) Wouldn't this mean that the US would be stronger if its constituents believed in civil service? Ah, this is new information to me.

This conflict between sending our very best or our most “average Joe” to government comes up pretty regularly. As far as I can remember, every presidential election involves some questioning on which candidate can “feel your pain” or represent “the American people.” We poll on which candidate we would “most like to have a beer with” or “have dinner with.” We want our candidate to be the most capable, but we are mistrustful of those from “elite schools.”

I also note that loose confederations have been largely unsuccessful (e.g., League of Nations, Confederate States of America) even though they were founded by members who were sick of strong authority. Wasn’t Washington (of the cherry tree) a respectably strong central authority. (I was never that good at history.) Wouldn’t this mean that the US would be stronger if its constituents believed in civil service?

]]> Comment on Configuring VMWare Server 2 authentication by Daniel http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-5819 Daniel Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:23:18 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=104#comment-5819 Actually, I'm not sure about the NIS authentication. I notice that there are a couple threads on this in the VMWare forums, and one of them pointed to a wiki page: http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Full_NIS_Integration It looks like pam_nis.so isn't required, though a lot of other configuration is needed. FYI, I stopped messing with it as soon as I got the normal Kerberos AFS login to work since that's all I needed. :) Actually, I’m not sure about the NIS authentication. I notice that there are a couple threads on this in the VMWare forums, and one of them pointed to a wiki page: http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Full_NIS_Integration

It looks like pam_nis.so isn’t required, though a lot of other configuration is needed.

FYI, I stopped messing with it as soon as I got the normal Kerberos AFS login to work since that’s all I needed. :)

]]> Comment on An article about the costs of US healthcare by Stephen http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=106&cpage=1#comment-5817 Stephen Tue, 16 Jun 2009 16:51:32 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=106#comment-5817 One thing to keep in mind, though, is that historically France has had a political culture of strong, capable civil service for quite some time now (I think dating back to the monarchy?), and, for them, being in the civil service is a highly desirable job for those from the very best schools in France. See this in contrast with historical American political culture; the US was born in a revolt to separate itself from a strong government, and the republic was conceived because its framers were suspicious of strong government. One thing to keep in mind, though, is that historically France has had a political culture of strong, capable civil service for quite some time now (I think dating back to the monarchy?), and, for them, being in the civil service is a highly desirable job for those from the very best schools in France. See this in contrast with historical American political culture; the US was born in a revolt to separate itself from a strong government, and the republic was conceived because its framers were suspicious of strong government.

]]> Comment on Configuring VMWare Server 2 authentication by Arun http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-5792 Arun Fri, 12 Jun 2009 17:05:20 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=104#comment-5792 Btw, here's my email. Btw, here’s my email.

]]> Comment on Configuring VMWare Server 2 authentication by Arun http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-5790 Arun Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:56:42 +0000 http://www.wilyness.com/blog/?p=104#comment-5790 Thanks for the post. It was kind of useful for me. I'm searching to find some info on configuring nis authentication with vmware server 2.0. Do we still require pam_nis.so library? I read that as long as the system's /etc/nsswitch.conf file is configured for nis, pam_unix.so would be sufficient. Can you please shed some light on this. Thanks for the post. It was kind of useful for me. I’m searching to find some info on configuring nis authentication with vmware server 2.0. Do we still require pam_nis.so library? I read that as long as the system’s /etc/nsswitch.conf file is configured for nis, pam_unix.so would be sufficient.

Can you please shed some light on this.

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