Re: Administrating a network of debian machines?

[Mitch Blevins <mblevin@mindspring.com>]

In foo.debian-user, Will Lowe wrote:
> What tools do people here use to administrate a network of Debian
> machines?  I can handle normal system/network administration,  but what
> problems does dpkg introduce?
> 
> Eg:  If machine B mounts /usr from machine A,  how do I keep dpkg
> from screaming at me when I dpkg -i something on machine B that tries to
> put files in /usr?

dpkg does not currently handle this.
There is the possiblity that you could hack a solution with the libtricks
package to make dpkg think that /usr is writable... (try at own risk).

There are snippets of similar discussions on debian-admintool if you
feel like combing thru it.

-Mitch