I had this problem for a long time, and no one ever proposed a good solution. Recently I got a new answer on my, almost 2 year old, Unix and Linux StackExchange question. This information seems very obscure and so I thought I’d share it, if you too have had this problem and were unable to find this, or at least found finding it hard, consider upvoting the answer. Problem You’re using a Linux system that you don’t have root on, you need to override the DNS of the system.

Today Joel Spolsky announced The resultsof the pollof whether ubuntu SEand unix SEwould be merged, they won’t. In short the Unix community was in favor of it but the Ubuntu community was not. Joel had this to say: So, Ubuntu, Linux, I get it, it’s clearly not the same thing. If you love Ubuntu, we have a site for you. If you love Linux and Unix, we have a site for you.

So if you’re running Arch Linux and want to install a bunch of packages from CPAN the best way is NOT to use the official cpan client, or even the new cpanminus. No your best bet is to use AUR or lacking AUR packages, create your own, and I’m gonna walk you through how I do it. The really nice thing about installing packages with Pacman is that unlike cpan there is a utility to uninstall them.

So you need the outside world to have access to some box’s on your internal network. first you should use Static DHCPto tell static the IP’s of the computer you’re routing to. Then you of course need to know the inbound from the outside world and the port on the computer you are forwarding too. For this example we’ll forward WAN (Wide Area Network (or (probably) the Internet)) port 8080 to a local dev box running Apache on httpd (we assume you know how to set apache up and make sure it’s working on the LAN(Local Area Network)).

Most Unix users believe it’s impossible to add a group that was recently added to your user account without logging in and logging out. If you’re running X and need to give your gui new permissions (like dolphin/konqueoror) this may be true, for the most part. I don’t know how to change it for those processes. However, if you need to change it for a shell prompt it’s easy. You merely execute the command newgrp <newgroupname> in an open shell prompt and that prompt will now be loaded with the new group.

NOTE: this assumes that you’ve read my previous post on basic iptables setup on the desktopSo I just spent the longest time trying to determine what ports I needed to browse and use samba shares. The sad answer is it’s just one.iptables -A INPUT -p udp –sport 137 -j ACCEPTthe catch with all the information I found with google was that most of it was for samba servers. I didn’t want that.

Release Highlights vanilla-sources-2.6.28.9 gcc-4.3.3 glibc-2.9_20081201-r2 openrc-0.4.3-r1 baselayout-2.0.0-r2 git-1.6.2.3 perl-5.10.0 bash-4.0_p17 app-sh/dash is now included in the tarball, in the next major release I hope to make it /bin/sh please test and report any bugs with doing this. apache2 and mysql are known to have issues. openrc works fine, the average desktop system should work. Known Issues emerge --sync will not clone the tree if it does not exist in portage 2.

That’s right I’m putting my money where my mouth is. It’s small but the first 2 packages when into the regen2 treethis morning. They are MySQL 5.1.30 which was added because the gentoo maintainer refused to add it do to instability. I agree that it is unstable, but we have ~M Hard Masked packages for that reason. It has been added as ~M. The other app added is qsynergy, the ebuild was already on portage and I know it to be good so I added it to the tree, I’ll probably stabilize it in a few weeks.

… and it’s something we didn’t build. We get lots of things first but we usually build them. We never get proprietary software first. At best we get proprietary software the same day. Generally we get it months later. However, today linux takes another giant step towards being the dominant next OS, we are the first to receive 64-bit flash from adobe. Windows isn’t getting it, Mac OS X isn’t getting it, we are.