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- From: mobej@thaad-1g%hac2arpa.hac.com (Mario Obejas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
- Subject: Re: renaming client & server in a cluster
- Message-ID: <22978@hacgate.SCG.HAC.COM>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 01:28:00 GMT
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- kk@hpl-opus.hpl.hp.com (Konstantinos Konstantinides) writes:
- : In comp.sys.hp, rcaslis@anansi.acs.uci.edu (Russell Caslis) writes:
- :
- : >
- : > I have a cluster of HPs set up here (two 710s, one 720). One 710 is the
- : > server, one is a client, and the 720 is a client.
- : >
- : > The person who I set these machines up for wants to recieve mail at a specific
- : > address which is currently assigned to a client, not the server. According
- : > to what I know, the clients cannot receive mail, only the server can (great
- : > design, huh?).
- : >
- : > So what I want to do is swap the names of the two 710s. I have been told that
- : > there is no way to do this without re-installing the OS. Is there any other
- : > way to do this?
- : >
- : >
- : > --
- : > Russ Caslis
- : > rcaslis@uci.edu
- :
- : Clients CAN receive and send mail, except it is not recommended.
- : One approach described in "Installing and administ. ARPA services"
- : is using mail name-servers.
- :
-
- Is the *intent* that the person can read the same mail at any machine?
- Just wondering. If so,
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- for all machines to have common mail
- ln -s /common-NFS-Mounted-directory/for-mail /usr/mail
- end
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- Mario Obejas mobej@thaad-1g.hac.com (714) 732 2954
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