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Subject: Re: Sharing wtmp across system possible/advisable? 
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From: David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
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>If it's possible, what's the recommended method?  I figured I could link
>it to a file on an NFS filesystem.  Since the machines in question mount
>everything except root from a master NFS server, I don't see any huge
>problems with this, but perhaps there's something I'm overlooking.

   How would record locking work during the updates? ...we don't have lockd
yet in FreeBSD.

-DG