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From: putnam@thuban.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Mixing vaxen and suns on NFS
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Date: Thu, 26-Mar-87 15:10:59 EST
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(The discussion was on having a home directory on a different type of machine
than you login on...)

Sitting on my desk is a sun 3 (with a disk even).  My home directory is on
a vax running betatest ultricks with NFS.  The only problems i have had
have been with the vax crashing from time to time (it seems to do it more
frequently than the local suns), and with servers of various flavors being
taken down without sufficient user notification.  

I do have a test in my profile that runs a locally installed program
/bin/mach to see what kind of machine i am running on, and that
modifies my path appropriately (personal vax executables go in ~/vbin,
sun executables in ~/sbin and shell scripts in ~/shbin).  Most of the
machines sharing NFS have the directory structures looking about the same,
and much of the larger stuff is simply shared.  I am thinking about making
/bin/mach more flexible so i can actually ask questions (ie, am i a vax?
is this ultricks? and so forth) which would allow for greater ease in
setting up my environment.  

Otherwise, no real problems.  


Well, shall we go?  -- jefu (jeff putnam)
Yes, lets go.       -- UUCP: steinmetz!putnam
(They do not move.) -- ARPA: putnam@ge-crd.com