[Gllug] NFS replacement

[Walid Shaari]

On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 18:41, Formi wrote:
> Formi
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> 
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Dylan wrote:
> 
> > On Monday 24 February 2003 17:11, Formi wrote:
> > >  Hello
> > >
> > >  I have a lot of nfs shares on my server, some of them are ports systems
> > >  for OpenBSD and FreeBSD, plus /usr/src.
> > >
> > >  Obviously I find myself many times in the situation that I have files
> > >  moving across the network, to the clients, when the destination is the
> > >  server, and the origin is also the server.
> >
> > You mean you are copying from server.box:/directory1 to server.box/directory2?
> > Why don't you just ssh the server and do it that way. Alternatively, scp might
> > offer something.
> 
>   None of those would help, imagine this scenario, you have the
>  kernel-source.rpm in server, then you try to install it, but /usr/src is
>  mounted in server:/usr/src. If you kick rpm from the client, you will
>  have the files moving all over the place.
Why don't you do it from the server then in the above scenario ??!

mmh! may be I haven't understood your problem yet! sorry!!
put If I have an rpm repository and I want to install an application t I
might do this

rpm -Uvh ftp://remoteserver/rpmpath/rpmfile


but I might be just brain dead this evening :(

can you rephrase what the problem is in here?

Walid.


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