Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines
pikt might be an interesting tool for you. I am not sure if it is in
Debian yet.
See:
http://pikt.uchicago.edu/pikt/
Having binaries stored in some common location is not at all unusual.
Upgrading one binary in one location effectively upgrades all machines.
Something like a /usr/tools/linux dir for programs that are not run all
that often is a good idea in a lot of situations. You don't want your
entire bin directory someplace else but it does make sense for
applications that one might run only a few times a day.
On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote:
> I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It
> seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with
> Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly
> heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the
> admin tasks. He is very knowledgeable on Solaris, HPUX, and probably some
> others, but is new to Linux. He and I are having a bit of a debate right
> now as to the most effective way to manage these machines.
>
> We've got NIS running and all user accounts are automounted from a Sun
> Sparc running Solaris. We have a mixed Solaris, Linux installation. So far
> so good. What our sysadmin would like to do (this is typically what he
> does for other Unixes) is to install client machines with a very basic set
> of functionality. Then he would compile each application that would be
> provided and install it into a directory in /home (e.g. /home/cvs/bin),
> which would also be automounted when necessary from one of the client
> machines. I see this as a little silly when, for Debian at least, nearly
> all of the applications we use are easily installed on all the machines in
> the normal Debian way. Our sysadmin sees the Debian way as interesting,
> but a requirement for him to visit 25 machines instead of 1.
>
> My question is, is there anyone out there, preferably a sysadmin type, who
> has experience with this type of thing and could give us some advice.
>
> Thanks...
> Steve
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