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Subject: Re: [9fans] ndb/csquery: what is dns is not up?
From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@plan9.bell-labs.com>
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Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 08:16:53 -0400
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> I think starting a second factotum steps on /srv/factotum unless you
> start the second one with -s and a unique service name.

That may have been true very early on,
but it's definitely not true now (I'm not sure
it ever was).  I run new factotums all the
time.  The default is not to post.  The system
factotum is run by /boot/boot as

	factotum -S -sfactotum

I start new factotums all the time.  It doesn't
break anything on my systems.

Russ