Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-22 Thread stas khromoy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 thanks for the help guys ! Jerry McAllister wrote: > On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> hey folks >> >> we are working on building a failover server. >> now everyt

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Jerry McAllister
On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:28:27AM -0500, stas khromoy wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hey folks > > we are working on building a failover server. > now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) > > so the question of the day. > is there a way to repl

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Robin Vley
Kirk Strauser wrote: i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those files. I just read in another post that you can compile them using pwd_mkdb, that was news for me. I just want to confirm

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread David Newman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/20/06 9:06 AM, Kirk Strauser wrote: > On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:28 am, stas khromoy wrote: > >> i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . > > You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versio

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Kirk Strauser
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 10:28 am, stas khromoy wrote: > i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.passwd will work . You'd also need to pick up /etc/{s,}pwd.db - the compiled versions of those files. -- Kirk Strauser pgplg6wDlyMbY.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Beech Rintoul
On Wednesday 20 December 2006 07:28, stas khromoy wrote: > hey folks > > we are working on building a failover server. > now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) > > so the question of the day. > is there a way to replicate the password files ? > > i doubt that just copying over

Re: replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread Bill Moran
In response to stas khromoy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > hey folks > > we are working on building a failover server. > now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) > > so the question of the day. > is there a way to replicate the pas

replicating /etc/passwd on a failover machine

2006-12-20 Thread stas khromoy
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hey folks we are working on building a failover server. now everything is going along pretty nicely. (knock on wood) so the question of the day. is there a way to replicate the password files ? i doubt that just copying over /etc/passwd and master.p