My Original question was this...
> I have to install Openwindows 3.0 on 20+ machines. What I would like to know
> is... Does the Installation affect any other files besides the ones in
> /usr/openwin. If not, would there be any side effects of installing on one
> machine, apply all the patches I want and tar it off on an nfs mount to
> be un-tared by each of the target machines. Of course each machine would
> need to run install_openwin. Anyone else done this? Am I missing anything?
> Please Advise, and I will summerize.
The overall consensus is YES you can do this but you need to run install_openwin on each machine after the /usr/openwin structure is
untared.
I received 13 replies in about 14 hrs, and more as I am writing this...
9 of which said yes in one way or another
2 suggested using rdist to keep the structure up-to-date. Which I am going to
look into further.
2 answered questions that had nothing to do with the one I asked?
Other Suggestions/Comments...
- Save the /usr/opwenwin/lib directory off the old system in case some
software dosn't work with the new library stuff.
- One said it was a waste of space to put the /usr/openwin structure on each
of the individual machines and should be mounted off the server. Which may
be true unless your server is overworked and undersized which ours is.
- Another respondent noted that he noticed NO significant differance in
performance between mounting and running openwindows locally. This again
depends on the state of your server/network. He acknowledged that he has
a very beefy server where as my server is in the "Where's the beef"
catagory :-).
- One said they mount the /usr/openwin off the server but do NOT run
install_openwin on the clients. He said they had no ill side effects???
Thanks to All who Replied...
fallan@baobab.awadi.com.AU (Frank Allan - Network Manager)
bb@math.ufl.edu (Brian Bartholomew - Univ. of Florida Dept. of Mathematics)
katkam@fuwutai.att.com (Anil Katakam) AT&T Bell Labs
randy@ncbi.nlm.nih.gov (Randy Huntzinger)
zjat02@trc.amoco.com (Jon A. Tankersley)
csb@gdwb.OZ.AU (Craig Bishop)
birger@vest.sdata.no (Birger A. Wathne)
aadne@tss.no (Aadne Hestenes Spt)
davee@lightning.mitre.org (David N. Edwards)
Richard.Elling@eng.auburn.edu (Richard Elling)
matt@wbst845e.xerox.com (Matt Goheen)
tlr@toy.rad.msu.edu (Terry Rosenbaum)
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