Re: Compute Farm, Part II
On Wed, 11 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote:
> I guess I didn't explain real well the first time, although I enjoyed
> the thread..
>
> On this compute farm, they want to make changes to 1 machine, as in
> adding a package, changing a config file, etc and having the resultant
> changes reflected on the other 199 machines, without having to go
> to each machine and tweak it. Installing the machines will be a
> short, but intense process, but they are looking for long range admin
> solutions.
isn't this sort of thing precisely what cfengine is for? cfengine is available as a debian package.
rdist/rsync/ssh can also be useful for remote admin too...
BTW, what makes them think that RH can do this any easier than debian?
looks like cfengine is orphaned at the moment....it has been updated to
libc6 already, though.
/debian/dists/unstable/main/binary-i386$ dpkg -I admin/cfengine_1.3.19-2.deb
new debian package, version 2.0.
size 229684 bytes: control archive= 1078 bytes.
79 bytes, 3 lines * conffiles
818 bytes, 21 lines control
665 bytes, 21 lines * postinst #!/bin/sh
90 bytes, 7 lines * prerm #!/bin/sh
Package: cfengine
Version: 1.3.19-2
Section: admin
Priority: optional
Architecture: i386
Depends: libc6
Installed-Size: 428
Maintainer: (orphaned)
Description: A tool for configuring and maintaining network machines
The main purpose of cfengine is to allow the system administrator
to create a single central file which will define how every host
on a network should be configured.
.
cfengine is also useful as an interpreter for a general scripting
language for ordinary users. It is handy for tidying up junk files
and for maintaining `watchdog' scripts to manage access rights and
permissions on files when collaborating with other users.
.
It takes a while to set up cfengine for a network (especially an
already existing network), but once that is done you will wonder
how you ever lived without it!
craig
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