shared custom icons

[Mark Callow]

In article <9102262001.AA10384 at scripps.edu>, jwk at SCRIPPS.EDU (John Kupec) writes:
|> 
|> 3 NFS'ed irises- no NIS or automount. User icons in B:/usr/local/lib/faces.
|> Irises A & C use icons from B via soft link to faces directory on B 
|> (B:/usr mounted on A & C).
|> 
|> This setup works fine UNLESS machine B is down.  Then, trying to login
|> on console sends pandora(?) into an infinite loop on A & C when trying 
|> to access the unavailable custom icons.  It seems logical enough to only 
|> want one set of icons- how to accomplish?
|> 
That's what we do here at SGI.  A large proportion of the systems on our
internal network nfs mount a /usr/local/lib/faces directory from one system.

Most people mount this system somewhere under /n and use a symbolic link from
/usr/lib/faces. For example I have the faceserver:/ mounted at /n/faceserver.
Then I have a symbolic link from /n/faceserver/usr/local/lib/faces to
/usr/lib/faces.
	
When the face server is down (which is rarely) Pandora shows its default
sketch of a user.  I have never experienced the problem you describe.

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