Re: {bb} BB - error mesgs

[Henrik Olsen <henrik@iaeste.dk>]

On Tue, 2 Feb 1999, Raed Nashef wrote:
> Hello to all,
> 
> I have Bigbrother NFS mounted on all the UNIX machines that I monitor on the 
> network. Offcourse, all of the BBNET machines do write to the same BBHOME/tmp 
> directory (I assume!). Do you think this is the reason I'm getting the following 
> error messages all the time!?
> 
> ###
> cat: cannot open /opt/bigbrother/1.08/tmp/DFOUT
> ###
That's proobably the cause, but you should remember that a setup like that
essentially defeats the purpose of BB in the first place, since a failure
in the NFS server will take down your entier BB system, leaving you
without a good way to identify the problem.

-- 
Henrik Olsen,  Dawn Solutions I/S
URL=http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/
Get the rest there.

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