> Unless you have over 1000 clients at your site

Why would quantity of clients be an issue?

> of which you don't
> have root access because the clients are administered by others ...

Yep, that'd be a problem.

Although, since I assume you do have control over the networker
server, it wouldn't be too hard for you to *get* root on all those
machines ;-)

Sean

> >Maybe I'm misunderstanding the problem, and making it too simple, but
> >when I want to have a client skip its nightly backup for just a night
> >or two, I just kill the Networker processes on the client.  The backup
> >fails, and I get notified about it via the standard notification
> >mechanism.  It will continue to fail (and notify me) until I restart
> >the Networker client software or the machine is rebooted.
> >
> >Like I said, maybe I'm not getting it, but that seems like a simple
> >solution to me...
> >
> >Sean Ross
> >Corvallis, Oregon, USA
> >rosss AT ace.orst DOT edu
> >
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