From owner-freebsd-newbies Tue Feb 18 14: 8:58 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2AC737B401 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:08:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from magnesium.net (toxic.magnesium.net [207.154.84.15]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 048C543F85 for ; Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:08:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from negative@magnesium.net) Received: (qmail 55003 invoked by uid 1224); 18 Feb 2003 22:08:56 -0000 Date: 18 Feb 2003 14:08:56 -0800 Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2003 14:08:56 -0800 From: negative To: Terry J Dunlap Jr Cc: FreeBSD Newbies Subject: Re: Ports & Sources Server Message-ID: <20030218220856.GB52127@toxic.magnesium.net> References: <000901c2d799$5be5f340$0201a8c0@barney> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000901c2d799$5be5f340$0201a8c0@barney> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-URL: http://www.magnesium.net/~negative/ Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Feb 18, 2003 at 05:01:58PM -0500, terrydunlap@netzero.net wrote: > I have an old Pentium I machine. Is it possible to use this machine as a > simple file server where I can update the ports collection and /usr/src then > "push" it out to my other machines? By that, I mean once the file server is > updated, some type of script runs that automatically updates the other > machines' ports and /usr/src? Is this even doable? I don't know. Make sense to setup a NFS server to meet your need, but I suggest you to use better machine than PI for that. Jim Geovedi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message