Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Path: utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!bcara128!marmen
From: marmen@bcara128.bnr.ca (Rob Marmen 1532773)
Subject: Re: backups
Message-ID: <1990Sep11.124044.11537@bnrgate.bnr.ca>
Summary: c program
Keywords: rgy_admin, registry, backups
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References: <1990Sep10.151351.20186@water.waterloo.edu>
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Date: Tue, 11 Sep 90 12:40:44 GMT

In article <1990Sep10.151351.20186@water.waterloo.edu>, phcalamai@water.waterloo.edu (Paul H. Calamai) writes:
> 
> HELP!!!!  There something that I'm attempting with
> backups that I'm still having problems with.

Try a small c program which executes a SYSTEM call to run the script and
setuid the c program. Apollo does not let you run setuid scripts. Note that
this setup is insecure.

One question: Why do you need to backup the registry? If you have multiple 
              servers and the master goes down hard ( and it does ;-) ), then
              you can make another slave a master server. We use this technique 
              on five separate Apollo networks.

rob...


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