Re: distributed directories

[Quanah Gibson-Mount <quanah@stanford.edu>]

--On Wednesday, April 14, 2004 11:19 AM -0700 Donn Cave 
<donn@u.washington.edu> wrote:


There are really all sorts of ways to do this.  We keep two conf files, a 
conf for the master, and a conf for the slaves.  The conf for the slaves is 
essentially identical bar hostnames.  So we use the tool called "bundle" 
(<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/bundle/>) to filter in the 
hostnames, and use krsh (kerberized rsh) to distribute updates to the conf 
files on all our servers.  All changes to the conf files are also tracked 
in CVS, so we can back out if there are issues later on.  Of course, we 
test conf file changes on our test servers before deploying them to 
production. ;)

--Quanah


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Quanah Gibson-Mount
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Stanford University
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