On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 10:52:25PM +1000, David wrote: > On 06/06/2013, Andrei POPESCU <andreimpope...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Jo, 06 iun 13, 14:39:22, David wrote: > > For my curiosity, could you please provide an example where *system* > > users need to be synchronized between different machines? > > Hi Andrei > > Each machine has multiple OS root partitions managed by grub1, > each with /usr and /var. There is a different home dir for each OS with > its own dotfiles (lets say that to keep this story simpler), but most of > my work data files are bindmounted under it from a common data > partition. > For example, I might want to play with a http server, that I could run on > any machine, but it would have data available from the synced data > partition. Another possible candidate would be dnsmasq.
Sounds like a job for ssh! ?? Each machine could then be "headless" then use your most portable machine as display and keyboard? virtual machines to test out another OS There must be a particular reason why you have decided to do things that way. I would be interested to know what that reason is. -- "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing." --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130609052302.GD6677@tal