Re: Pool administration
hi ya....
sound like a fun project/requirement...
- doing across debian boxes... should be relatively straight forward ???
- verify your grades on some guine pig boxes just in case
something breaks
- if it works... and nothing broke...make a *.custom.deb package
out of it and put on your "master"
- make your own "master" system for other debian boxes
to update itself from
- each client can do its apt-get update and upgrades
- doing it across various linux... debian, rh, slackware, suse, etc...
- i use "update.pl" from cron or manually, i run my own (dumb)
version of the "apt-get"
- check for any new packages since "last update"
- get the new stuff and install it...
- keep track of the last set of updates
- using a mixture of *.rpm and tarballs
- last big issue is...some "distro" uses different formats for the same
files ( /etc/exports is different in rh vs deb vs slackware, etc )
- tab vs space vs no-space allowed issues
- /24 or *.0 for ip# syntax etc
- the above is a good reason to keep a homogenious (linux) network ....
but than again, throw in sun, hp, sgi, ibm and you can have more fun...
and throw in microsoft and you might as well bring in your sleepingbag...
- so now we are back to the old "package manager wars" ?? ....
the trick to either is.... saving config files before the updates
and/or merging the old config with the new config files
have fun linuxing
alvin
http://www.linux-1U.net ... 3 NIC firewalls in 1U ... 1U Raid5 ..
On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, M G Berberich wrote:
> Hello,
>
> are there any tools/hints/recommendationshow to adminstrate a pool of
> debian-systems.
>
> At the moment we have connected stand-alone-systems sharing some
> resources via nfs and nis. From a users view this is O.K. but from
> administrators view it is not. Package-installations/upgrades and
> configuration has to be done on every machine.
> I'm thinking about
>
> - automatic installation/upgrades of packages on _all_ machines.
> without the need to ssh into every machine by hand.
> - centralised configuration (nfs-mounted config-files, ...)
>
> I had a look at cfengine but does not like it very much.
>
> MfG
> bmg
>
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