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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users 1 symbolic link to 2 different places? Post 39643 by Bashar on Wednesday 27th of August 2003 12:48:11 AM
Old 08-27-2003
1 symbolic link to 2 different places?
I was wondering is it possible todo something like following:
A) Settings:-
- 2 servers on the network
- both can be reached via /net/SERVER1/datadir and /net/SERVER2/datadir
- i'm running rsync to syncronize the data coming to server1 from whatever application

B) Wanted:
on other workstations say workstation1 i have /share which is a symlink to /net/SERVER1/datadir whats wanted that if i want to 'cd /net/SERVER1/datadir' and incase SERVER1 is down it automaticly jump to SERVER2

C) How:
i was thinking about timeouts if it hangs for 1 - 3 seconds it automaticly jums to SERVER2 or with if statement that does something like
ls /net/SERVER1/datadir > /dev/null
RETURN=$?
if [ $RETURN = 0 ]
then
cd /net/SERVER1/datadir
else
cd /net/SERVER2/datadir
fi


or if there is easier way todo it.


Thanks in advance.
 

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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN

rig

RIG(6)								   Games Manual 							    RIG(6)

NAME

       RIG - Random Identity Generator

USAGE

       rig [ -f | -m ] [ -d datadir ] [ -c num ]

DESCRIPTION

       Rig is a utility that will piece together a random first name, last name, street number and address, along with a geographically consistant
       (ie, they all match the same area) city, state, ZIP code, and area code.

       It is suitable for such applications as feeding the NY times registration page to fend off junk (snail) mail and telemarketers, or for reg-
       istering on BBS's to which you don't wish to reveal your real information.

OPTIONS

       -f, -m Respectively, use female and male names. If neither or both options are selected, RIG uses both female and male names.

       -d datadir
	      Use data files found in datadir. Without this option, the default directory of /usr/share/rig is assumed.

       -c num Output num identities. Default is 1.

FILES

       /usr/share/rig/locdata.idx
       /usr/share/rig/street.idx
       /usr/share/rig/fnames.idx
       /usr/share/rig/mnames.idx
       /usr/share/rig/lnames.idx

HISTORY

       Based on "fake" written for MS-DOS. Unfortunately the author and publish date are unknown.

       First UNIX version written from scratch in 1999.

       This manpage based on RIG version 1.10.

AUTHORS

       UNIX  version  (c)  1999-2002 Ian Turner with contributions from Ian Prowell, Nick Rusnov, and Schneelocke.  Geography Database is from the
       original  version  and  I  believe  it  to  be  held   in   the	 public   domain.    Names   database	is   from   the   US   Census	at
       http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/ , courtesy of Trent Stanley.

       Send all comments and bug-reports to:

       vectro@RIG.sourceforge.net

								    4 JUN 2002								    RIG(6)
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