Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2004-11-07 01:12:49, schrieb Mark Ferlatte: > Okay. I guess my next question is: why do you want your user > crontabs NFS > mounted from your clients? Since they are local configs, why not > just let them > be local? If you feel that you have to backup your crontabs for each > host, > have a

Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.07.1012 +0100]: > Okay. I guess my next question is: why do you want your user > crontabs NFS mounted from your clients? The cluster nodes are frequently reinstalled, so the crontabs need to be installed automatically. > This actually closes

Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-07 Thread Mark Ferlatte
martin f krafft said on Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 12:30:06PM +0100: > also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.06.0123 +0100]: > > Do you really want your user's crontabs to run on every host in your > > cluster? > > They are mounted from master:/srv/var/spool/crontabs/${HOSTNAME}, so >

Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.06.1313 +0100]: > > This is definitely one idea. However, then my users cannot use > > crontab(1) anymore, thus there will be no syntax checks, and > > You must educate them... :-) You are funny. I work at a university where people are wor

Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-06 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Martin, Am 2004-11-06 12:30:06, schrieb martin f krafft: > also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.06.0123 +0100]: > > What about a script that looks in each users homedir for .crontab, > > and runs crontab -u $USER ~$USER/.crontab every, say hour or so? > > Put that script

Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Ferlatte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004.11.06.0123 +0100]: > > I am trying to set up persistent crontabs in a FAI cluster by using > > NFS to export /var/spool/cron/crontabs to the clients, thus > > effectively storing the crontabs on the server. I further would like > > to use root_squ

Re: NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-05 Thread Mark Ferlatte
martin f krafft said on Fri, Nov 05, 2004 at 02:43:02PM +0100: > I am trying to set up persistent crontabs in a FAI cluster by using > NFS to export /var/spool/cron/crontabs to the clients, thus > effectively storing the crontabs on the server. I further would like > to use root_squash. Do you re

NFS-mounting crontabs

2004-11-05 Thread martin f krafft
Hi all, I am trying to set up persistent crontabs in a FAI cluster by using NFS to export /var/spool/cron/crontabs to the clients, thus effectively storing the crontabs on the server. I further would like to use root_squash. Using ACLs on the server, I managed to give nobody read access, so now c