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- From: sebring@daehall7.Eng.Sun.COM (Nancy Howes)
- Newsgroups: comp.windows.open-look
- Subject: Re: Calendar Mgr. and mounting /var/spool/calendar
- Date: 24 Jul 1992 17:25:29 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems Inc., Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 25
- Message-ID: <l70f89INN1ul@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
- References: <1992Jul17.114436.17388@linus.mitre.org>
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- Keywords: calendar, cm
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- In article <1992Jul17.114436.17388@linus.mitre.org>, grobertsmitre.org (Glenn Roberts) writes:
- > a while back there was some discussion here about the feasibility of
- > mounting /var/spool/calendar across a network of machines for the
- > purpose of sharing calendar files (Open Windows Calendar Manager
- > tool). This works fine, of course, for mail. the recommendation (as I
- > recall) was to avoid this since it does not work reliably but there was
- > no clear reason or evidence (maybe rpc.cmsd is not smart enough?). can
- > anyone shed more light on this topic? currently we must require people
- > to maintain their calendars all on one server. We're running Openwin 3.0.
- >
- > glenn roberts, MITRE
- > groberts@mitre.org
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- Mounting the calendar directory can result in corrupted calendar data.
- We recommend either running cm from the server and displaying it locally
- or browsng the calendar from the local cm.
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- Nancy Howes
- Calendar Manager Engineer
- SunSoft
- sebring@sun.com
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