f21 workstation(gnome) ping fedora servers every 300seconds

[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 04:34:52PM -0400, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> People running servers on a distribution other than a server setup
> (ie. workstation). How often does someone's desktop get a server
> dropped on it during development, then moved to production?
> Developers have done that since the SunOS (no, not Solaris) days, so
> good to know that workstation builds are different when testing.

These days, Docker provides a very appealing way to do this. You can
run the container on your desktop and then move it all together to your
test and production environments. Makes doing this a lot less messy!




PS: former SunOS and IRIX admin, here. :)

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Matthew Miller
<mattdm at fedoraproject.org>
Fedora Project Leader