Re: {bb} Client Distribution

[Henrik Storner <henrik-bb@hswn.dk>]

In <27ae9216041025104640e4a6ba@mail.gmail.com> Shane Presley <shane.presley@gmail.com> writes:

>Hello,

>My BB4 server is on Linux, but most of my clients will be Solaris 8,
>Solaris 9, and NT.

>So am I correct in assuming that I just install the client on each OS
>(from the downloaded archive), and then just copy over my bb-hosts
>from my BB server?  Is that the only file I need to bring over?  I'll
>also need bb-msgstab and bb-cputab right?

You need to at least copy bb-hosts over, and if you change your
BBDISPLAY or BBPAGER settings, then you must update them on all 
of the clients.

The bb-cputab, bb-dftab, bb-msgstab, bb-proctab files are what
controls the local client software. So those need to be on each host.
However, you dont *have* to keep them identical on all systems, since
they only use the settings for their own hostname. So if you like,
just put each hosts' entry into those files, and forget about updating
them.

I know the BB docs recommend that you keep these files in sync on
all of your systems, but sometimes that just won't work (if you have
many clients, as I do).


Henrik
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