From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 18 18:13:49 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39D337B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:13:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.comcast.net (smtp.comcast.net [24.153.64.2]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4741B43FA3 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 18:13:47 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from terrydunlap@netzero.net) Received: from barney (pcp246633pcs.howard01.md.comcast.net [68.55.64.60]) by mtaout05.icomcast.net (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.09 (built Jan 7 2003)) with SMTP id <0HAJ00K47A6Y3U@mtaout05.icomcast.net> for freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:13:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 21:14:59 -0500 From: Terry J Dunlap Jr Subject: Re: Ports & Sources Server To: Mike Jeays , negative Cc: FreeBSD Newbies Message-id: <001501c2d7bc$b4790a10$0201a8c0@barney> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <000901c2d799$5be5f340$0201a8c0@barney> <20030218220856.GB52127@toxic.magnesium.net> <3E52E0FC.3040708@rogers.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org NFS is new to me. In addition to the handbook and "FreeBSD Unleashed", any other sources you might suggest for learning NFS? I see that O'Reilly publishes "Managing NFS and NIS." Is this overkill for what I'm trying to achieve? Thanks for speedy and helpful replies! Terry ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jeays" To: "negative" Cc: "Terry J Dunlap Jr" ; "FreeBSD Newbies" Sent: Tuesday, February 18, 2003 8:42 PM Subject: Re: Ports & Sources Server > negative wrote: > > >On Feb 18, 2003 at 05:01:58PM -0500, terrydunlap@netzero.net wrote: > > > > > >>I have an old Pentium I machine. Is it possible to use this machine as a > >>simple file server where I can update the ports collection and /usr/src then > >>"push" it out to my other machines? By that, I mean once the file server is > >>updated, some type of script runs that automatically updates the other > >>machines' ports and /usr/src? Is this even doable? I don't know. > >> > >> > > > >Make sense to setup a NFS server to meet your need, but I suggest you > >to use better machine than PI for that. > > > > Jim Geovedi > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > > > > > > Depends on what you have to hand, or how much cash you feel like > laying out. I use my old Pentium 120 as a server in my home installation, > and it seems perfectly adequate. (It does have a more recent 10GB disk). > NFS is certainly a good way to go. > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message