From: sqweek <sqweek <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Using the Acme Editor
Newsgroups: gmane.os.plan9.general
Date: 2008-08-20 19:47:15 GMT (1 year, 2 weeks, 10 hours and 52 minutes ago)
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 2:58 AM, erik quanstrom <quanstro <at> coraid.com> wrote:
>> You only need a cpu
>> server if you want to let other machines run processes on your
>> machine. You only need an auth server if you want to serve resources
>> to a remote machine.
>
> i don't think this is accurate.
>
> You only need a cpu server if you want to let /multiple users/ run
> processes on your machine.  You only need an auth server if you
> want to /authenticate/.
>
> you don't need multiple machines to authenticate.  (you can authenticate
> to a fs running on the local machine.  you can authenticate via imap
> locally.)  you don't need multiple users to need a cpu server.  you need
> a cpu server to run services such as smtp or cron.

 Ah, right. Thanks for clarifying Erik, sorry about the swearing Eris.
 Makes a lot more sense now, though I still don't see the need to run
auth for a standalone terminal. cpu serv for cron, maybe.
-sqweek