Re: Questions about Netatalk running on Debian server
On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 10:53 AM, Paul E Condon
<pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
> On 20120509_012529, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, May 8, 2012 at 5:14 PM, Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net> wrote:
>>> On 20120506_230937, Paul E Condon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> I have a long and troubled relation to Netatalk. I live in a family
>>>> where everyone else loves the Mac, and I have a need to communicate
>>>> with them. I once had netatalk running on Debian back in 2004, I
>>>> think, but lost that ability about the time my daughter bought her
>>>> first MacBook in 2006. I'm revisiting the problem now using an i386
>>>> box running Wheezy.
>>>>
>>>> I've installed netatalk from a Debian repository and started looking
>>>> at /usr/share/doc/netatalk and the looking for a man page. The
>>>> .../doc/netatalk files all date from 2010 or earlier, which is well
>>>> before the version of netatalk in Wheezy was released. There is not
>>>> 'man netatalk', but there is a 'man netatalk.conf', and that page
>>>> begins with:
>>>>
>>>> " SYNOPSIS
>>>> /etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf "
>>>>
>>>> But no such file was installed by the netatalk package, and I can find
>>>> no mention of netatalk.conf at .../doc/netatalk/
>>>>
>>>> According to Aptitude, the version of netatalk that I installed
>>>> is 2.2.2-1. From searching the web, I pick up statements that
>>>> things do work in it that never worked before. But I can't see
>>>> anything different in the documentation. I remember that, when I
>>>> did have it working long ago, I didn't have to do anything in
>>>> order to have it advertise its services and to have it actually
>>>> serve files. My problems then were with serving a printer. Now I
>>>> use CUPS for that. But I don't see my Macs picking up an advert.
>>>> (They do pickup adverts from one of the Macs, so I know that they
>>>> are listening.)
>>>>
>>>> So, my questions:
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone have netatalk 2.2.2-1 working under Wheezy? Can you point
>>>> me to some debugging instructions? Or, can you lead me through some
>>>> tests to discover what is going wrong?
>>> I posted this, below, a couple of days ago. I'm hoping to find someone
>>> who follows this list and who actually has netatalk v. 2.2.2-1
>>> installed from the Debian package in Wheezy. I would very much like to
>>> get it working, but ... I can't. All the documentation that I can find
>>> is two or more years old, and does not pertain to the packaged
>>> version.
>>>
>>> P.S. Thanks Tom, but I need more than the fact that
>>> /etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf once existed as part of an earlier version
>>> of the package. It may still be part of a properly configured
>>> netatalk, but it doesn't seem to be included in this package.
>>
>> Please bottom-post.
>>
>> You misunderstood. I said that I remember that the config files on
>> Debian are "/etc/default/netatalk" and /etc/netatalk/afpd.conf".
>> Perhaps I should've also said that I remember
>> "/etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf" to be the Fedora equivalent of
>> "/etc/default/netatalk".
>
> Thanks, Tom.
>
> I certainly did misunderstand, and calling it to my attention is much
> appreciated. I my defense, I note that the package does add to the man
> pages a page for netatalk.conf, and that man page does say it is
> located in /etc/netatalk/, which begs the question, What is a default?
> In other places than Debian, default behavior of a program is the way
> it behaves if there is not a configuration file. Live and learn.
You're welcome.
I was wondering whether a bug should be filed against the man page of
"netatalk.conf". Not having netatalk installed and feeling too lazy to
instal it in a spare Vm, I googled the "netatalk.conf" Debian man page
and landed on the project's original man page [1] and it has the
following text: "If netatalk has been configured with --enable-debian,
it is not netatalk.conf but etc/default/netatalk".
I don't quite understand what you mean by "default behavior" but in
Debian, files in "/etc/default" are often used to control the behavior
of init daemons. (In RHEL/Fedora, "/etc/sysconfig" is used so it's
surprising that the maintainer didn't relocate
"/etc/netatalk/netatalk.conf" to "/etc/sysconfig/netatalk". He/she
could even convince upstream to add a "--redhat" compilation flag and
a explanatory line in the man page!)
AFAIK/AFAIR, it's "/etc/netatalk/afpd.conf" that's the more important
file and someone posted an example for you so I hope you have netatalk
running.
1. http://netatalk.sourceforge.net/2.2/htmldocs/netatalk.conf.5.html
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