From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 22 6:33:16 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from 01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com (core1.hck.carroll.com [216.44.16.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59D4B37B424 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 06:33:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from damien@localhost) by 01.dhcp.hck.carroll.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id JAA66243; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:35:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from damien) Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 09:35:48 -0400 From: Damien Tougas To: Vivek Khera Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Request for change to /etc/rc script Message-ID: <20000922093548.B66178@carroll.com> References: <20000921130109.Y9141@fw.wintelcom.net> <200009212009.e8LK9m113036@orthanc.ab.ca> <20000921181057.A61901@carroll.com> <14795.23115.58191.605588@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <14795.23115.58191.605588@onceler.kciLink.com>; from khera@kciLink.com on Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:10:35AM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 09:10:35AM -0400, Vivek Khera wrote: >rdist is your friend. Here's a nice simple rdist file to send around >the password and group files: Imagine that you have hundreds of workstations. In order for rdist to work properly you are making a large assumtion, namely that all of the workstations turned on and online. If a workstation is offline for one reason or another, you can wind up with holes in the password distribution system. The purpose of NIS is to get away from having to replicate files across all workstations. -- Damien Tougas Systems Administrator Carroll-Net, Inc. http://www.carroll.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message