From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 15 1:29:37 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from rain.macguire.net (sense-sea-MegaSub-1-125.oz.net [216.39.144.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2E9C37B400 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:29:28 -0800 (PST) Received: (from roo@localhost) by rain.macguire.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g2F9Qkv94403; Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:26:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roo) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2002 01:26:46 -0800 From: Benjamin Krueger To: "jamgill@uu.net" Cc: Benjamin Krueger , Joe & Fhe Barbish , FBSDQ Subject: Re: man pages to hmtl Message-ID: <20020315012646.B93644@rain.macguire.net> References: <20020314200432.A93644@rain.macguire.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jamgill@UU.NET on Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 03:45:40AM -0500 X-PGP-Key: http://www.macguire.net/benjamin/public_key.asc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * jamgill@uu.net (jamgill@UU.NET) [020315 00:44]: > > Hey thanks! I wouldn't have thought of that, probably until it was too > late. :-) > > I had thought of mounting the /usr/share/ directory via NFS. Would that > be: > * sillier > * more resource intensive > * less secure > > than putting up one webserver and putting lynx on every *nix box in your > farm? I would go so far as to say that both options are not recommended; this is the result of my own philosophy on proper administration of servers though. Putting up an NFS share for related documentation is probably a poor choice for a number of reasons: - NFS incurs a good deal of complex management issues and their associated baggage for relatively little gain. In a server environment, you want to minimize exposure to configuration mishaps. - NFS is an application which could cause you great pain in troubleshooting. Ask yourself, "Do I want to spend 4 hours debugging why NFS is clogging the network just so I can read manpages on each individual server?" - NFS is not known for being a champion of secure network software. Installing Lynx wherever you need documentation is not a terribly good idea for the same reasons above. In more cases than not, folks administer servers from a workstation which has at least local www access, thus giving them perfect access to documentation while working on a server. -- Benjamin Krueger "Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Send mail w/ subject 'send public key' or query for (0x251A4B18) Fingerprint = A642 F299 C1C1 C828 F186 A851 CFF0 7711 251A 4B18 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message