On Tue, Apr 22, 2003 at 12:11:33AM -0500, David Phillips wrote: > Smith, Craig A (MN14) writes: > > At the north end of last Friday's beer meeting, there was a > > discussion about server naming conventions. I opined the names of 7 > > dwarfs works only until you get an 8th server. > > [...] > > I'm curious as to why you'd need to arbitrarily make up a bunch of server > names. I've always named servers after their function. That practice has > been used everywhere I've worked. When you have names like www, ns, backup, > db, mail, etc., followed by numbers, it is obvious what each box does. > [snip] That would be fine if all of your servers did exactly one thing. You never had a server running both HTTPD and FTPD? -- trammell at el-swifto.com 9EC7 BC6D E688 A184 9F58 FD4C 2C12 CC14 8ABA 36F5 Twin Cities Linux Users Group (TCLUG) Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list