[tech] mop on hydra

[Duncan Sargeant]

Ian McKellar wrote on Wed October 04, at 00:53 +0800:
> The real issue with NFS (as far as I see it) is that if its down the bootup
> process hangs for a few minutes. This sucks. We /should/ be able to disable
> reverse lookups for sshd, but I can't see where...

Hmmm, how about making it near the end of the boot sequence?  If all you
are worried about is waiting for a login on the console, ^C has
never failed for me.  And don't point home directories at NFS.

Nick Bannon wrote on Tue October 03, at 16:41 +0800:
> I think it's a "not needed? get rid of it" situation... Actually, doing
> the same with DNS might be wise, too - if nothing else, sshd will hang
> for minutes if it can't look up names.

Definately.

> > viw prevents this from occurring.  Administration tools which come out
> > of iiNet are necessarily stupid proof.
> 
> Yeah, except our copy of viw isn't working... Bringing up the editor,
> but not gaining the lock.

OK, looking at the code, you're meant to leave it locked out.  Its
intended to only be used by root, I don't know if/how it deals with
multiple people editing.  It needs a rewrite anyway ... :-)

I added some code to viw to set the author field of of the RCS file.


,dunc