Re: {bb} Client Distribution

[Shane Presley <shane.presley@gmail.com>]

Thanks Henrik, that's exactly what I was looking for!
Shane



On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:59:51 +0000 (UTC), Henrik Storner
<henrik-bb@hswn.dk> wrote:
> 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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