On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 10:01:21AM -0400, Chris Santerre wrote: > "Of course, you probably need to use a userprefs database in that case, > rather than the userprefs in each user's home directory." > > Aside from moving the process to another system, Are you saying that seting > up the users in a database is a faster process then putting configs in user > directories? I haven't completed my setup for the company. I've just been > testing. I was going to use mailertable for people without custom settings, > and just setup users who wanted custom in regular home dirs. > > I've only got about 100-120 email addresses to handle. So maybe this doesn't > even matter to me.
I have learned to dislike NFS dependencies and user home directories on boxes that don't absolutely need them. I will take a database over those options anyday. The database also gives you one place to look for/change settings. Most of my users are lucky to know which mouse button to use at any time. Editing userprefs files would blow their minds. Eventually I will put up a web frontend so they can tweak their own settings in the database but, until then, it is not a major burden to us to add the entries for the users who need/want special settings. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0002en _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
