On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Stephen Smoogen wrote: >On Fri, 2 Apr 2004, Havoc Pennington wrote: > >>A queue in /var is suboptimal because it partially defeats the purpose >>of the deployment model - it leaves per-machine state to be corrupted, >>backed up, hacked, etc. >> > >How is printing done? How do cron jobs mail when a services home >directory may not exist and the shell is nologin? Not trying to poke >holes as much as think things out-loud. I wonder if queues should go >under /var at all? > Actually, I think I am needing what the deployment model is and what it is for... that would help me get my head around it and what would need to be done. I may have a solution to the conundrum, but it needs a better idea of what is wanted. -- Stephen John Smoogen smoogen@xxxxxxxx Los Alamos National Lab CCN-5 Sched 5/40 PH: 4-0645 Ta-03 SM-1498 MailStop B255 DP 10S Los Alamos, NM 87545 -- You should consider any operational computer to be a security problem --
