On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 04:15:20PM -0500, Richard Cobbe wrote: > The only thing I'm not sure how to do is keep /usr/local local to each > machine, even though /usr is mounted across the network. This may or may > not be a requirement in your situation, however.
Not sure whether this is the best way or not, but _a_ way would be to create a /local/usr directory on each client and make the exported /usr/local a symlink to /local/usr. I've used the basic technique to give user accounts a /home/local (so that, e.g., their desktop layout can be different on machines running X at different resolutions or their netscape cache can be on local disk instead of shipped over the network) and it works pretty well in that case. Using it with a directory that's in $PATH could introduce problems, though, if /local/usr doesn't exist on all clients. -- When we reduce our own liberties to stop terrorism, the terrorists have already won. - reverius Innocence is no protection when governments go bad. - Mr. Slippery
