Re: adminning mult boxen
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
| moin, moin,
|
| luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise.
I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky.
| We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes
| get rolled out as appropriate. In previous gigs I've used roll your own
| packages. At one place, however, we had an admin using cfengine. Looks
| interesting, but even I know enough to not consider des encrypted :). It
| also mightily takes away from the wonderful, simple file structure
| configuration that *NIX has[1].
|
| Anything out there that anyone wants to recommend? Anything that works
| really well with debian? Not often that I get a homogenious Linux network to
| play with :).
Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and
stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered
box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the
terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is all unified on
the server.
-D
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