[9fans] auth server question?

[9fans] auth server question?

[Sam Ducksworth]

are most of you running your auth servers stand alone(kfs)
or are you booting them from floppy and getting system files
via a file server?

--sam

Re: [9fans] auth server question?

[Matt]

SD> are most of you running your auth servers stand alone(kfs)
SD> or are you booting them from floppy and getting system files
SD> via a file server?

SD> --sam

i run 1 box, combined auth & cpu with kfs

Re: [9fans] auth server question?

[Reynald AFFELDT]

> SD> are most of you running your auth servers stand alone(kfs)
> SD> or are you booting them from floppy and getting system files
> SD> via a file server?
> 
> SD> --sam
> 
> i run 1 box, combined auth & cpu with kfs

by the way, if I use rio in such a setting (I know that I'm not
supposed to run rio on a cpu server), ^p reboots the machine

what's the trick?

       rei

Re: [9fans] auth server question?

[Lucio De Re]

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:13:56AM -0500, Sam Ducksworth wrote:
> 
> are most of you running your auth servers stand alone(kfs)
> or are you booting them from floppy and getting system files
> via a file server?
> 
I'm planning to change, but presently my auth server is still
2nd edition and whereas it boots off a hard drive, it uses the
file server as soon as it can.

The plan is to make the CPU server stand-alone and also the
serial console for fileservers and other rack-based (not
-mounted, sigh!) hosts.  In fact, I'm hoping to charge it with
shutting down and starting up the managed equipment in the
event of power outages.  Could be a long time coming,
naturally.

++L

Re: [9fans] auth server question?

[Dan Cross]

In article <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108210904540.65851-100000@lucifer.ducksworth.com> you write:
>are most of you running your auth servers stand alone(kfs)
>or are you booting them from floppy and getting system files
>via a file server?

I run my cpu/auth server off of my file server, booting both off
of a floppy.  In those devices where I can, I use 9fat partitions
on IDE devices (sometimes disc, sometimes a flash device) instead
of floppies, but those devices are relatively few.  That's
somewhat unfortunate, since floppies boot so slowly and have a
tendency to die over time (I suppose all things do, but floppies
have a particularly short lifespan).

If I had my banks, I'd make the file server and CPU server boot
off of flash devices and everything else boot over the network.
Unfortunately, I am poor.  :-)

	- Dan C.

Re: [9fans] auth server question?

[dpx]

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Our auth server boots off a small 9fat disk partition and then
gets root from the fileserver. 


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From: Sam Ducksworth <sam@ducksworth.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] auth server question?
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:13:56 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108210904540.65851-100000@lucifer.ducksworth.com>

are most of you running your auth servers stand alone(kfs)
or are you booting them from floppy and getting system files
via a file server?

--sam

Re: [9fans] auth server question?

[bwc]

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I run a CPU server and a separate file server running 2nd edition,
and a CPU server and a separate file server running 3rd.
Each edition is running it's own AS but I've only got a half dozen
accounts and I'm the only user of the 2nd edition file systems.
I can mount the old bootes from 3rd edition since my password
is the same on both systems!

 Brantley

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From: Sam Ducksworth <sam@ducksworth.com>
To: 9fans <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] auth server question?
Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 09:13:56 -0500 (CDT)
Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0108210904540.65851-100000@lucifer.ducksworth.com>

are most of you running your auth servers stand alone(kfs)
or are you booting them from floppy and getting system files
via a file server?

--sam