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From: nagy@darwin.topend.com.au (Robert Nagy)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: sharing wtmp across machines
Date: 2 Jun 97 22:40:02 GMT
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Hi Folks,
One of our freebsd boxes acting as a terminal server is nearly at the
limit of it's capacity. I plan to build another box to handle our next
group of 32 dialins, but I have a slight problem.

Is NFS the best way to setup sharing of the wtmp (and other associated)
logging files?  Basically we've got scripts that handle all the billing
info directly from information contained in /var/log/wtmp. 

So let's say a  user logs into box 2, it uses the password files we
rdist across from box 1.  Box 1 runs the main wtmp (and other) files.
Should box2 just be an NFS client of box 1 as far as /var/log/wtmp goes?

Or is there a another solution I just can't see yet?


Robert