Re: Cluster Administration, a suggestion, and possible intent to package
On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 10:59:17AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I read this, I think about the cluster (at CMU) that I'm sitting in
> right now, and I have a really good idea. I do not believe it's
> packaged, and I am not even sure if it's currently distributed outside
> of campus, but there is a (most likely DFSG free, I'll check) program
> called depot. It uses 'sup' (is sup packaged? Is it going to be?) for
> distributing updates, and has the ability to run scripts when files on
> the master change, and while it does not quite push, it can be set to
> run nightly. Or if a push is really needed you could manually run it
> on all machines (using ssh and authorized_keys for instance).
>
> If I can and it hasn't been, I'll package up depot - I imagine it needs
> quite a bit of work, but it certainly could be the basis for
> clustering.
>
> Dan
And in followup to that, sup is indeed packaged, and depot
unsurprisingly is not.
Dan
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