Re: DNS-like idea for SCSI (NIS+ maybe)
Albert Cahalan <albert@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> What about having something like DNS, so that users
> could name their SCSI devices? I see that www.sun.com
> is really 209.249.116.195, but my web browser doesn't
> make me type that in. There's no "mozilla -scanweb" to
> spit out IP addresses. I just use www.sun.com, which
> is much easier to remember. It's also good for Sun,
> since they can change the machine used for www.sun.com
> without having to disable the old box.
>
> Am I mistaken? Do you always type in the numbers?
> If you don't, please try it for a week.
>
> We do the same thing for usernames. You type "schilling"
> to login, don't you? I doubt you type your UID number.
>
> It's nice to be able to have the same account name
> on different systems, even when you can't get the
> exact same UID number.
Check the man page of cdrecord for a decription of the features
that are handled by /etc/default/cdrecord
Jörg
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