User-Agent: Microsoft-Outlook-Express-Macintosh-Edition/5.02.2106
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:57:04 +0100
Subject: Re: Network and AppleScript
From: Thomas Kaiser <Thomas.Kaiser@phg-online.de>
To: Thomas Thaler <thomas.thaler@zi.unizh.ch>,
	<macos-x-server@lists.apple.com>
Message-ID: <B83FDFDF.16227%Thomas.Kaiser@phg-online.de>
In-Reply-To: <20011214150151.8931@smtp.unizh.ch>
Mime-version: 1.0
Content-type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit

am 14.12.2001 16:01 Uhr schrieb Thomas Thaler:

> Is the Panel "Network" inside the "System Preferences" scriptable with
> AppleScript 

Maybe ;-) But this won't help in your situation, I think...

> or is there an other way to that?

As MacOS 10 is UNIX, the "System Preferences" are only a GUI for system
tools like /sbin/ifconfig, /sbin/route, /usr/sbin/appletalk, etc.

If you want to implement a failover solution you should also become very
familiar with NetInfo concepts. Just manipulating the 'normal' network prefs
won't work without keeping NetInfo in mind...

I don't know whether there exists a way to mirror two MOSX boxes completely.
Dump or rsync will operate pretty well on UFS filesystems (but AFAIK not on
HFS+) but if you want the server to do mac-filesharing, I would recommend
using HFS+ for the data... So you probably will end up in a mixture between
dump/rsync and ditto for synchronization (not to forget nidump/niload?)...

Regards,

Thomas