From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] auth server question? Message-ID: <20010821162923.C17724@cackle.proxima.alt.za> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Sam Ducksworth on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 09:13:56AM -0500 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2001 16:29:24 +0200 Topicbox-Message-UUID: e46e8d0c-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 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