From owner-freebsd-small Sat Oct 2 22:10: 9 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from peach.ocn.ne.jp (peach.ocn.ne.jp [210.145.254.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E59A14A06 for ; Sat, 2 Oct 1999 22:10:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dcs@newsguy.com) Received: from newsguy.com (p21-dn02kiryunisiki.gunma.ocn.ne.jp [210.163.200.118]) by peach.ocn.ne.jp (8.9.1a/OCN) with ESMTP id OAA10159; Sun, 3 Oct 1999 14:09:58 +0900 (JST) Message-ID: <37F6E4C4.BFD0B036@newsguy.com> Date: Sun, 03 Oct 1999 14:08:20 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.6 [en] (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en,pt-BR,ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: chad@DCFinc.com Cc: jeff@dcnv.com, freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Help... heh. References: <199910021951.MAA07498@freeway.dcfinc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Chad R. Larson" wrote: > > But given the stated application (Apache web service) on identically > configured machines, it sounds like diskless would be the way to > go. Pick an Ethernet card that supports the diskless boot. You'll > want NIC/NFS/DHCP up on a redundant pair of master servers. You don't need identically configured machines. That's what rc.conf.local is for. You can have it sym-link to a file in a directory mounted local (if the machines have disk), or even to machine-specific nfs mounted directories. The advantage is that you keep the things that _are_ equal, such as "world" :-) and installed packages, common to all machines. The configuration itself may vary. The the rc.diskless* stuff. It's powerful. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org Rule 69: Do unto other's code as you'd have it done unto yours To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message