jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu (Jason Heirtzler) (01/04/91)
Has anyone tried to make their RISC-6000 a "dataless workstation" ie. have a local root and swap filesystem, but mount /usr over the net? It's very tempting, since the savings can be significant, but there's some things on /usr that aren't sharable (for example, the database of LPPs), so this would not seem possible in this release. How about it Austin? jdh ------------------------------------------------------------------- Jason Heirtzler (617) 353-2780 jdh@bu-pub.bu.edu Information Technology Boston University ..!bu.edu!bu-pub!jdh
benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) (01/05/91)
no go. sendmail modifies a file in /usr/lib, and that was just the tip of the iceberger. someday, perhaps AIX will have /var. -- Benson I. Margulies
jpe@egr.duke.edu (John P. Eisenmenger) (01/07/91)
From article <1991Jan5.011235.27677@odi.com>, by benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies): > no go. sendmail modifies a file in /usr/lib, and that was just the tip > of the iceberger. someday, perhaps AIX will have /var. So, build a sendmail that looks for its files elsewhere. In order to keep things running smoothly at my site I run the same sendmail everywhere. This eliminates having to handle each company's "improvements" to the software and the config files. I'm presently running sendmail 5.65 on my '6000 with only a few changes (mostly bug fixes to sendmail). Another option would be to use symbolic links in the place of the changing files and move the actual files to "/var" or wherever. > Benson I. Margulies John P. Eisenmenger
benson@odi.com (Benson I. Margulies) (01/09/91)
I presume that the original poster wanted to know if it could be done simply and straightforwardly. Of course, if you want to spend a week on it, you can revise the hierarchy and any number of programs to make this work. Good luck when the next patch tape rolls in. -- Benson I. Margulies