On Wed, 3 Apr 2002, Bertrand Decouty wrote: > Having host aliases enables me (and possibly other people) to change printer > server hosts very quickly (just move host alias, then restart nscd and lpd on > new server [solaris]), without having to modify any printcap file (which are > NFS mounted and updated every night).
Couldn't you do that just by using a CNAME in your DNS and updating that when you want to move your service? If you set a small TTL on the entry, then it will only take a few minutes to propagate your change. Cheers. -- ============================================================================= Graeme Wood Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unix Systems Support Phone: +44 131 650 5003 The University of Edinburgh Fax: +44 131 650 6552 ============================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
