Re: [tlug] Apache: Logging: how-to pipe logs or log toanothermachine (was Disk

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoth Jean-Christian Imbeault (Wed 2002-09-04 10:34:36PM +0900):
> >From: Bruno Raoult <br@example.com>
> >
> >Sorry fot this dirty solution, but if LAN is fine, and your
> >servers secured enough (!!), why not NFS for your log files?
> 
> Because NFS is dirty :) I've never done NFS and from what little I've heard 
> about it I think I want to stay away from it ...

You are a wise man. According to me (a well-known network expert ;),
NFS is only appropriate in a very well secured network.

If you are root on a machine to which NFS filesystems are exported,
you can exploit the shitty security design of NFS.

> But maybe everything I have been hearing about NFS is not true and it 
> really is a good thing? (not)

Nope. Please, use AFS.


-- 
Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.
http://www.incogen.com/

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