From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 14 15:22:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D056816A4EB for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:22:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chobbs@siloamsprings.com) Received: from [24.248.215.40] (cityhall.siloamsprings.com [24.248.215.40]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01B5143DC1 for ; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:22:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chobbs@siloamsprings.com) Received: from athome.siloamsprings.com by [24.248.215.40] via smtpd (for mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) with ESMTP; Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:16:43 -0600 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athome.siloamsprings.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A55CE694057 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:52:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athome.siloamsprings.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 94F49694058 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:52:06 -0600 (CST) Received: from athome.siloamsprings.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (athome.siloamsprings.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 06441-08 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:52:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from [10.5.1.254] (unknown [10.5.1.254]) by athome.siloamsprings.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30446694057 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:52:02 -0600 (CST) Received: from no.name.available by [10.5.1.254] via smtpd (for athome.siloamsprings.com [10.5.1.3]) with ESMTP; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:41:31 -0600 Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 08:46:00 -0600 From: "Christopher M. Hobbs" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20061109144600.GA71721@siloamsprings.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-PGP-Key: http://altbit.org/pseudorandom/keys/officekey.gpg X-PGP-Key-FingerPrint: 75E4 B0C1 EFCB 13E1 ED5B A8B8 E43E AFFD A376 48AF X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at siloamsprings.com Subject: multiple ports trees X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 15:22:50 -0000 --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hello, list! I've got about six production servers and a couple of workstations running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE and 6.2-PRERELEASE. Some of these machines are sitting in DMZ, the others are internal. Currently, each of them has their own ports tree. How terrible of an idea would it be to take one of the production servers that isn't really doing a whole lot of work, and make it's /usr/ports available over NFS to the other machines? Am I headed in a bad direction here? Also, what about user accounts between machines? I got to thinking that because some of the servers have the same user accounts, would it be possible to share a password file or home directories? Should I build another box strictly for this purpose? If so, could you point me to some documentation for achieving such a goal? Thank you for your time! cmh --=20 Christopher M. Hobbs IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs chobbs@siloamsprings.com, (479).524.5136 --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFUz8o5D6v/aN2SK8RAsGLAKCjADHWfr8fqbytRgdmIq5VZmZx+gCgvIge Sc4xXgRcH1IRLPAt+x6pFkM= =ULh9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--