Re: managing multiple machines
On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0800, David Wright wrote:
> (Whatever happened to the very intelligent policy of configuring
> programs in /bin in /etc, configuring programs in /usr/bin in /usr/etc,
> and configuring programs in /usr/local/bin in /usr/local/etc?!)
Wouldn't really help any, given that stuff from /usr and /usr/local
may still require host-specific information in its configuration.
Which would just make things worse, really, since you would then be
unable to just mount all of /usr safely.
> I have also thought of trying to make the workstations diskless and
> using DHCP -- but then how can I give each machine a fixed name and IP
> address?
DHCP can assign them based on MAC address.
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