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The readme says to have all the bb-hosts the same.
However, we've been using BB for 5+ years w/150+ servers and maintain a
single/changing bb-hosts file on the server. Each client machine
has 3 lines. The first is a comment, then one for the BB server
(BBDISPLAY BBNET BBPAGER) and one for itself. Neither of these should
change too often. ;)
ie:
cat
~bb/etc/bb-hosts #IPADDRESS HOSTNAME # 1.2.3.4 servername # BBDISPLAY BBNET BBPAGER 1.2.3.5 clientname # --------------- From: Michael Davidson [mailto:mdavidson@mountwashington.org] Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 1:50 PM To: bb@bb4.com Subject: {bb} Synchronizing bb-hosts Big Brother is great for small
networks that do not change very often. As the number of hosts increases,
however, it becomes hard to maintain each bb-hosts file. What is the best
approach for synchronizing bb-hosts on all clients and servers? Is there
common approach, such as rsync, cron/wget, ftp? Ideally, I would like to
make updates (1) occur only when changes have been made to bb-hosts on one of
the clients or servers, (2) overwrite older versions, leaving newer intact, and
(3) be as short as possible from initial change to final
update. Thank
you, Mike
Davidson Michael
Davidson (603)356-2137
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