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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.
>
>That's probably what I was overlooking. :)
>
>Are there any plans for lockd in the future?

   We'd *LOVE* for someone to implement it. The problem is that noone seems to
know how (including the vendors that have it :-)).

-DG