Subject: Re: calendar vs. NIS
To: tech-userlevel <tech-userlevel@netbsd.org>
From: Ignatios Souvatzis <ignatios@theory.cs.uni-bonn.de>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 11/05/2002 11:13:48
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Hi,

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 09:55:34AM +0000, Joerg Klemenz wrote:
>=20
> i like to use calendar(1) to remind me of things. Unfortunatly it does
> not work well with NIS, as the man page of getpwent already suggests.
> It mails you the same calendar many times.

There are two solutions for this:

* If you insist to run calendar as superuser globally, run calendar
(the program) only on one machine, ideally the fileserver (if there=20
are multiple homedirectory servers, the server holding the files of
the most, or the most important users).

* If you don't, educate users that need the service to start calendar=20
nightly in their personal crontab on a single machine of their choice.

Regards,
	Ignatios

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