[1175] in Release_7.7_team
mkserv ops and attaching system packs.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Cattey)
Fri Dec 19 18:36:21 1997
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 1997 18:36:15 -0500 (EST)
From: Bill Cattey <wdc@MIT.EDU>
To: release-team@MIT.EDU
Cc: kelley@MIT.EDU
As many readers of this list know, I've been trying to convince various
people that the Athena release is appropriate for a server platform.
I've been pushing Pete Kelley to use an Athena release in preferance to
a vanilla Sun install, for example.
Today he and I tripped over something that is part of the Athena Server
Operator oral tradition, that might be worthy of doing a little
different for the generic Athena Service Host approach:
Leaving the system packs detached.
To us in the Athena mindset (if you will) the concept is:
mkserv ops
and then everything for normal operation of the server is copied local,
and you don't need to attach system packs, and they stay detached after
reboot. When fancy maintenance is required, we all know you explicitly
do:
attach -O athena-syn4sys-81
or whatever.
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Is there some reason why a server should have its packs detached by default?
Should there be an option to do otherwise on an mkserv ops machine?
Or is this REALLY the right way to do this, and we just need to be a
little more
careful in documenting how this works for someone using the Athena
install to set up a server?
-wdc
