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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.telstra.net!news.topend.com.au!darwin.topend.com.au!nagy From: nagy@darwin.topend.com.au (Robert Nagy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: sharing wtmp across machines Date: 2 Jun 97 22:40:02 GMT Organization: Telstra Internet Lines: 17 Message-ID: <33934bc2.0@news.topend.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: topend2.gw.au X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:42041 Hi Folks, One of our freebsd boxes acting as a terminal server is nearly at the limit of it's capacity. I plan to build another box to handle our next group of 32 dialins, but I have a slight problem. Is NFS the best way to setup sharing of the wtmp (and other associated) logging files? Basically we've got scripts that handle all the billing info directly from information contained in /var/log/wtmp. So let's say a user logs into box 2, it uses the password files we rdist across from box 1. Box 1 runs the main wtmp (and other) files. Should box2 just be an NFS client of box 1 as far as /var/log/wtmp goes? Or is there a another solution I just can't see yet? Robert