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Xref: sserve comp.unix.questions:33234 comp.unix.programmer:8985 comp.unix.aix:21143 comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit:2350 comp.unix.shell:8701 comp.unix.bsd:11824 Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!haven.umd.edu!uunet!decwrl!pa.dec.com!vixie From: vixie@pa.dec.com (Paul A Vixie) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions,comp.unix.programmer,comp.unix.adm,comp.unix.aix,comp.unix.pc-clone.32bit,comp.unix.shell,comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: crontab having effect on several machines Date: 15 Apr 93 23:03:07 Organization: DEC Network Systems Lab Lines: 16 Message-ID: <VIXIE.93Apr15230307@cognition.pa.dec.com> References: <1993Apr13.205021.27788@sifon.cc.mcgill.ca> <C5JD15.12A@crdnns.crd.ge.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: cognition.pa.dec.com In-reply-to: davidsen@ariel.crd.GE.COM's message of 15 Apr 93 17:39:05 GMT [bill davidsen] > If you have the guts and NFS you could export the crontabs directory > to all machines in the netgroup and mount it. It sounds good, but would > affect all the machines and all the users, not just root. that reminds me of the night Sun globally installed the NFS automounter for the first time. that night's calendar run was N^2 since every ~/.calendar file suddenly appeared on every workstation. i think that sharing things like /var/cron/tabs via NFS is a bad thing. as bill points out, you can do what you want with uucp. -- Paul Vixie, DEC Network Systems Lab Palo Alto, California, USA "Don't be a rebel, or a conformist; <vixie@pa.dec.com> decwrl!vixie they're the same thing, anyway. Find <paul@vix.com> vixie!paul your own path, and stay on it." -me