On Tue, 27 Jan 2004, Rick Daihl wrote:
> Rather than installing CYGwin and CYGwin/X locally on each machine, can I run
> from a common network drive? In this scenario I would have
> several machines running from this drive. I've already tried this and ran
> into /tmp/XWin.log file not being unique. I know I'll pay a heavy
> price for hitting the network (that might be an uderstatement). We are
> replacing Exceed with this package. Most of our desktops don't have
> enough free space to load the two packages and have anything leftover.
Mount /tmp (and /etc, most likely) locally. That should take care of the
uniqueness problem. "man mount" for details. BTW, you can also mount
individual files (e.g., you can keep a local copy of just /etc/passwd and
/etc/group, and go to the network for everything else).
Igor
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