Does anyone have experiences with running Digital Unix (4.0) in a student
laboratory? By "problems", I mean machines booting into single-user mode
if something goes awry in the boot files.
We intend to NFS export a /usr partition from one of our Alpha Servers to
the lab hosts, to allow for the easy installation of subsets, etc. (we've
run our Ultrix boxes like this for years - and I was able to easily
'bomb-proof' the rc scripts under Ultrix).
I guess, I'm worried about NFS/network timeouts, and the scripts freaking
out and the putting the machine into single user mode. I would really like
the machine to shutdown to the eprom level if there are boot problems.
I haven't experimented much with this at the moment... I just thought I'd
put some feelers out, see other alpha managers had helpful suggestions!
Thanks.
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Andrew "Alf" Leahy, phone: 047 360385
Unix Administrator, mailto:alf_at_nepean.uws.edu.au
Systems & Ops, TASS, CCD, UWS Nepean
http://www.st.nepean.uws.edu.au/~alf/
Received on Wed Feb 19 1997 - 09:03:14 NZDT