From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 25 18:46:03 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA28098 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 25 May 1995 18:46:03 -0700 Received: from everest (dtr.rain.com [204.119.8.19]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA28064 for ; Thu, 25 May 1995 18:45:49 -0700 From: bmk@dtr.com Received: (from bmk@localhost) by everest (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA28686; Thu, 25 May 1995 18:32:32 -0700 Received: (from bmk@localhost) by dtr.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id RAA01018; Thu, 25 May 1995 17:52:45 -0700 Message-Id: <199505260052.RAA01018@dtr.com> Subject: Re: Sharing wtmp across system possible/advisable? To: davidg@Root.COM Date: Thu, 25 May 1995 17:52:42 -0700 (PDT) Cc: bmk@dtr.com, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199505260048.RAA00544@corbin.Root.COM> from "David Greenman" at May 25, 95 05:48:26 pm Reply-To: bmk@dtr.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 484 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > >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. That's probably what I was overlooking. :) Are there any plans for lockd in the future?