FS#4014 - Package: freenx - netcat not alled 'netcat' on Arch

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Laurence Hurst (Loz_hurst) - Monday, 20 February 2006, 12:03 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.1 Noodle
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Freenx fails to establish a connection with:
/opt/NX/bin/nxserver: line 933: netcat: command not found

The reason (and solution) are:
Arch's netcat package installs the netcat binary to '/usr/bin/nc'.
The freenx package by default tries to use 'netcat', this obviously fails.
Although there are a number of ways to get around this (e.g. 'ln -s /usr/bin/nc /usr/bin/netcat'), by far the most sensible solution is to modify the line '#COMMAND_NETCAT=netcat' to read 'COMMAND_NETCAT=nc' in the freenx config ('/opt/NX/etc/node.conf').
IMHO the freenx package should be configured in this manner so as to actually work on Arch!
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Closed by  Tobias Powalowski (tpowa)
Tuesday, 21 February 2006, 14:39 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed

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