From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-Id: <200104181326.PAA00966@copernicus.cs.utwente.nl> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: fs customization (was: Re: [9fans] Terminals) In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 12 Apr 2001 22:45:05 -0400." <200104130245.WAA22366@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <200104130245.WAA22366@augusta.math.psu.edu> From: Axel Belinfante Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 15:26:23 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 849fcb0c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 Dan wrote: > >My core cpu server boots via a floppy into dhcp and gets its > >kernel from auth, but doesn't run dhcp itself by using a switch > >in cpurc. > > Speaking of which.... Why doesn't the default cpurc do a switch > on $sysname so that one doesn't have to modify it after installation > to run the auth server services on the auth server, and the > ``normal'' CPU server services on ``normal'' CPU servers (usually > by adding a switch ;-)? Speaking of which... When I set up my fileserver, to boot the cpu/auth server from it (kernel from local disk, filesystem from fileserver), I made the same changes to /rc/bin/service(.auth) as I did when I set up the auth server on its local disk. Is that correct? Or do people set this up differently? (The changes I made will probably cause a second 'ordinary' cpu server to fail, I assume) On a related note: what about the ssh host key: if I use the fs, all cpu servers share the same key? Or is this part of the same switch? To make the question more general: how do I customize the file server such that I can have multiple cpu servers booting from it (by which I mean: using its filesystem, the cpu kernels may still come from local disk or boot flop). Is there a document describing this that I missed? Axel.