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- From: barmar@think.com (Barry Margolin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin
- Subject: Re: Problem with Netgroups
- Date: 20 Aug 1992 20:04:31 GMT
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
- Lines: 15
- Message-ID: <170tsfINN1ta@early-bird.think.com>
- References: <1992Aug18.122640.6360@informatik.uni-ulm.de> <14116@auspex-gw.auspex.com> <1992Aug20.175456.284@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- In article <1992Aug20.175456.284@newsgate.sps.mot.com> mario@wdc.sps.mot.com (Mario Nigrovic) writes:
- >Yes, but how often are netgroups changed? Seems silly to make
- >exportfs -root= so difficult to manage for such an infrequent
- >occurrence!
-
- At our site, the host table (which contains nearly 1000 hosts) changes an
- average of once a day, and ideally the netgroups should be kept consistent
- with it. We have about 20 file servers, and arranging for them all to
- update their exports whenever the netgroups change would be tedious.
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- Barry Margolin
- System Manager, Thinking Machines Corp.
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