Chad Walstrom said on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 10:05:15AM -0600: > On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 01:13:57AM -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > > FAI is good, but it doesn't handle updating the systems once you have > > them installed. > > You're absolutely right. The cfengine scripts are also slightly > difficult to re-use after the initial installation. A good cfengine > setup is hard to beat for managing multiple boxes, but cvsup is > certainly a good way to do it. I like cfengine, but I haven't done anything in production with it yet. > It just goes to show that there is no One Right Way(tm) to do things. Indeed. But arguably there are better ways; it would be cool if Debian Enterprise would help support them. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about this sort of automatic machine maintanence; there's a lot of tools out there, but they all have weak spots here and there. There also doesn't seem to be many places where people are talking about this stuff, either; many seem to go out and roll their own system, which is fine, but then all the poor admins end up re-inventing the wheel, which is not fine. M, wheel re-inventor.
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