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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

vidalia

VIDALIA(1)						      General Commands Manual							VIDALIA(1)

NAME

       vidalia - Controller GUI for tor

SYNOPSIS

       vidalia [options]

DESCRIPTION

       Vidalia allows you to start and stop Tor, view the status of Tor at a glance, and monitor Tor's bandwidth usage. Vidalia also makes it easy
       to contribute to the Tor network by helping you setup a Tor server, if you wish.  To find more information about what Tor is and how to use
       it, see the Tor homepage: https://www.torproject.org/

OPTIONS

       -help Displays this usage message and exits.

       -reset Resets ALL stored Vidalia settings.

       -datadir <directory>
	      Sets Vidalia's datadir to <directory>

       -pidfile <directory/pidfile>
	      Sets Vidalia's pidfile to <directory/pidfile>

       -logfile <file>
	      Sets the name and location of Vidalia's log file. If this option is specified without a loglevel, the default level of 'notice' will
	      be used.

       -loglevel [debug|info|notice|warn|error]
	      Sets the verbosity of Vidalia's logging. If this option is specified without a logfile, the log messages will be printed to stdout.

       -style <directory>
	      Sets Vidalia's interface style. [Windows|Motif|CDE|Plastique]

       -lang <langcode>
	      Sets Vidalia's language. Run Vidalia with the -help option to see a list of available language codes.

SEE ALSO

       tor(1)

       http://www.torproject.org/projects/vidalia.html

AUTHORS

       Matt Edman <edmanm@vidalia-project.net>
       Justin Hipple <hipplej@vidalia-project.net>

       This manpage was written by Alexander Wirt <formorer@debian.org> for the Debian Distribution (but may be used by others).

0.2.20								     June 2006								VIDALIA(1)
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