hi guys, i am interested in hearing how other people handle remote administration of multiple servers - with multiple admins. currently, we maintain 8 servers worldwide (all debian of course). the problem is that sometimes the connections across the atlantic are so bad that a vi session on the remote side - and if it's just to change a CNAME record for bind - is impossible because a character takes 30 seconds to be echoes to the terminal. so at the moment, we work with rsync and a local copy of the files. however, this requires discipline and it's not ideal - we all want something CVS like which can coordinate multiple admins, merge changes in a CVS-smart way, and then tell the remote system to cvs update once every hour. however, it doesn't seem to work with CVS because CVS does not preserve the permissions. however, i am thinking that there has to be a tool out there, because there is a UNIX tool for everything, and the problem i am experiencing is surely shared by hundreds of admins... if you manage multiple remote servers, and possible share that job with a couple others, how do you coordinate it all? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \____ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; net@madduck -- micro$oft windoze: proof that p. t. barnum was correct.
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