From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 9 15:10:52 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 D63A716A49E for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:10:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from hooobs@gmail.com) Received: from wr-out-0506.google.com (wr-out-0506.google.com [64.233.184.235]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB4F43D64 for ; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 15:10:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from hooobs@gmail.com) Received: by wr-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i31so107714wra for ; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:10:51 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type; b=NLA0rPEAPQxLYHbN26HIA6fsRyzvUxsBSz5yO/teGrzTM/YPzzgaLAq3fE1t3X0dKQ0/DWqRaOy9iTJGHbIdWfSIBkEUAFfeFJ6PTRBlWPWkxN2EUXuG7vRPYOvZLDM0fAWbm9079vD8N9qxvAwVVKug4slX4HnX4KaqDKl8ZR4= Received: by 10.78.166.7 with SMTP id o7mr1170555hue.1163085050062; Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:10:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.78.193.17 with HTTP; Thu, 9 Nov 2006 07:10:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <8153bba90611090710p75da2bcdja1d989ca002eed54@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2006 09:10:49 -0600 From: "Christopher Hobbs" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:10:53 -0000 This message may inadvertently get sent twice. For some reason, mx1.freebsd.org has been rejecting messages from my work address. Here's the message that I originally attempted to post: Thanks! cmh -- BEGIN SNIP -- 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 -- Christopher M. Hobbs IS Technician, City of Siloam Springs chobbs@siloamsprings.com, (479).524.5136 -- END SNIP --