Thus spake Petro: > On Mon, Nov 19, 2001 at 01:17:29PM -0800, David Wright wrote: > > > > I manage a cluster used for computational neuroscience at a University. > > The number of machines is starting to get to a point where it is difficult > > to maintain software synchronization across machines. Any tips? > > www.systemimager.org > > Also take a look at cfengine. I've never used the latter. > > > I have considered sharing /usr via NFS as well, but since configurations > > are stored in /etc, I'd have to share /etc too. But that won't work, since > > machine-specific information like an IP address and name is stored in > > /etc. (Whatever happened to the very intelligent policy of configuring > > programs in /bin in /etc, configuring programs in /usr/bin in /usr/etc, > > and configuring programs in /usr/local/bin in /usr/local/etc?!) > > That's the nice thing about standards, there are so many to choose > from. > > -- > Share and Enjoy. If you have the disk space, I suppose you could set up a chroot environment, and export the whole thing. that wouldleave the server environment intact, and the client environment in one place for ease of management. Just a thought. Good luck, Steve -- Long computations which yield zero are probably all for naught.
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