Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines
while i haven't tried this myself it may be worth a shot.
make your own packages for the programs you use in .deb format
point all the machines for apt to use http on the solaris box(or ftp, but
http is probably easier to maintain) then put the packages on the solaris
box. create a packages / packages.gz and setup a cron script say everyday
at 1am the machines run apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade. or spread the
times apart to reduce load on the solaris box, since the cron script will
have to be manually set everywhere(most likely) it may be best to have 1
box run apt at 1:10 am another at 1:20am etc..
you could also download any 'official' updates you want to distribute to
the solaris box for installation on the debian systems.
as far as installation of packages it could be as simple as
tarring/gzipping up a program(compiled) with the full directory tree in
it, then use alien to convert it to .deb, i dont know how to create a
packages file but you could just follow the examples in the real file,
change whatever you need to suit your setup.
nate
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
sawitt >I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It
sawitt >seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with
sawitt >Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly
sawitt >heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the
sawitt >admin tasks. He is very knowledgeable on Solaris, HPUX, and probably some
sawitt >others, but is new to Linux. He and I are having a bit of a debate right
sawitt >now as to the most effective way to manage these machines.
sawitt >
sawitt >We've got NIS running and all user accounts are automounted from a Sun
sawitt >Sparc running Solaris. We have a mixed Solaris, Linux installation. So far
sawitt >so good. What our sysadmin would like to do (this is typically what he
sawitt >does for other Unixes) is to install client machines with a very basic set
sawitt >of functionality. Then he would compile each application that would be
sawitt >provided and install it into a directory in /home (e.g. /home/cvs/bin),
sawitt >which would also be automounted when necessary from one of the client
sawitt >machines. I see this as a little silly when, for Debian at least, nearly
sawitt >all of the applications we use are easily installed on all the machines in
sawitt >the normal Debian way. Our sysadmin sees the Debian way as interesting,
sawitt >but a requirement for him to visit 25 machines instead of 1.
sawitt >
sawitt >My question is, is there anyone out there, preferably a sysadmin type, who
sawitt >has experience with this type of thing and could give us some advice.
sawitt >
sawitt >Thanks...
sawitt >Steve
sawitt >
sawitt >
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