Christian Langner wrote:
Hi,Thank you for your fast response. I know there is Systemimager and FAI for Debian-Linux. I`m wanted to know, if there are another tools and what are the advantages and disadvantages of these programs. For example, FAI has security holes. Why is this problem not fixed yet? I don`t know. But in our environment, we want to have good software without these problems.So, thank you very much for your time and help. Christian Langner
Well Christian, I haven't really ever used FAI before. But I can give you some information on SystemImager. It is basically a very well configured 'rsync' script. It basically just rsyncs your "golden-client"'s filesystem to your image server, while not rsyncing some directories like /dev and others (I don't remember exactly).
So that way, you have the entire filesystem of the client on your server and you can chroot to it and do other thing, which I think are useful. You have to be careful though, since anyone can connect to the rsync port of your server when it is running, but this can be alleviated with the "systemimager-ssh" package and also only running the systemimager service when it is required.
There is no file compression used with systemimager, but I think of that more as a feature rather than a bug, since you can directly modify the filesystem if need be.
Other people on this list probably know a lot more about systemimager and they will probably post more, so I hope you get the right help.
Good luck in your endeavours, regardless of which program you choose. <snip> -- Harshwardhan Nagaonkar Electrical Engineering Sysop Brigham Young University, UT-84602