Netatalk 2.0.3 on Centos 4
This is untested so far, but is the beginnings of a document on how to get netatalk up and running on Centos 4.
Install the CentosPlus unsupported kernel
Exclude kernel updates from [base] and [update]
exclude=kernel*
Enable the CentosPlus repository and include the kernel
enabled=1 includepkgs=kernel*
Install the plus kernel (used to be called unsupported) from CentosPlus.
Get and compile netatalk (beyond the scope of this document)
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http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/devel/SRPMS/netatalk-2.0.3-4es.src.rpm
The startup script is slightly broken, and needs to be patched
--- /etc/init.d/atalk.orig 2006-04-05 00:12:37.000000000 -0600
+++ /etc/init.d/atalk 2006-04-05 00:11:57.000000000 -0600
@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@
if [ x"${AFPD_RUN}" = x"yes" -a -x ${ATALK_SBIN}/afpd ] ; then
echo -n " Starting afpd:"
- daemon ${ATALK_SBIN}/afpd -U ${AFPD_UAMLIST} \
+ daemon ${ATALK_SBIN}/afpd ${AFPD_UAMLIST} \
-c ${AFPD_MAX_CLIENTS} -n \"${ATALK_NAME}${ATALK_ZONE}\"
RETVAL_AFPD=$?
echo
Also you can set the daemons to run in the background in /etc/init.d/netatalk.conf
# Control whether the daemons are started in the background ATALK_BGROUND=yes