Re: a few quipu questions PART II

Jason Cross <jcross01@eng.eds.com> Wed, 12 October 1994 16:36 UTC

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From: Jason Cross <jcross01@eng.eds.com>
Subject: Re: a few quipu questions PART II
To: Richard Letts <R.J.Letts@salford.ac.uk>
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Is there anyway to push a change from the master to
the slave (shadow)?

How do you specify the polling time by the slaves and
can the polloing time be changed while the DSA is running?

thanks again.


ciao,
Jason Cross <jcross01@eng.eds.com>
EDS      
Troy, Mi.

On Wed, 12 Oct 1994, Richard Letts wrote:

> Jason Cross wrote....
> > 
> > In regard to setting up a master directory with several
> > slave directories (the slave directories are exact duplicates
> > of the master): 
> > 
> >   -  When a change occurs on the master, can that data be pushed 
> >      (from the master) and/or pulled (from the slave) and how is 
> >      that push and/or pull defined.   
> > 
> quipu periodically polls the master server and fetches the EDB if necessary.
> note there is a bug on the version shiped with isode-7 that causes the slaves
> to fetch EDB every time they are restarted.
> 
> >   -  When a change occurs, is the entire EDB file sent or only 
> >      the change?  And how is this change proprogation affected
> >      if EDB.gdbm files are being used?
> the entire EDB is written out if a flat file,
> or just the chnaged entries if a .gdbm version
> 
> > Are there any examples available that show how to store MTA
> > information (name, ip address, and routes) in the X.500
> > directory?
> look at the mhsds internet-drafts; some of these are now RFC's, look in the
> RFC-index.
> 
> > When using the directory with gdbm files:  
> > 
> >   -  How do I use dish to change information in the EDB files and 
> >      update the EDB.gdbm files without restarting the directory?
> if you use DISH to change the data then the DSA writes the changes to the GDBM
> files automatically, and does not touch the EDB files
> 
> to convert the GDBM files to the text version use EDBCAT
> to convert the text files to the GDBM version use EDB2DBM
> 
> Richard Letts  
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Re: a few quipu questions PART II Jason Cross
Re: a few quipu questions PART II Eric D. Williams