Hi,

I've got a practical question for you network admin types.

I can serve and mount NFS things all day long, but have a question about
using this power for good instead of evil.

If I have say 6 computers, and would like to have one central /usr, does
this create problems when one set of software is run on one computer but
not another?

I.E., I have one respectable machine that does all the big memory
intensive / number crunching things and some 486 / Pentium machines that
are fine for outlying nodes.  Rather than have netscape or mozilla hogging
drive space on each machine, I could serve /usr.  The hesitation is (this
is a Debian network) if I install a package from one machine, what happens
to the config files, since each machine (presumably) has its own /etc,
/var, ...

Or, do you share the drive, install from each machine, then /usr collects
everything from everyone, and it doesn't matter if you overwrite something
with the same thing.  (I *shudder* at the kludgy nature of this!)

Any tips on sharing /usr, /home, and integrating with NIS would be
appreciated.  I haven't found TFM to R yet. <g>

Thanx,
Phil

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