From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 10:51: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.wmptl.com (mail2.wmptl.com [216.221.73.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB08C37B5F7 for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 10:51:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Received: from wmptl.com ([10.0.0.168]) by mail2.wmptl.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA27584; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 14:18:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from webmaster@wmptl.com) Message-ID: <39788CC0.F8CD145@wmptl.com> Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 13:47:44 -0400 From: Nathan Vidican X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Oscar Ricardo Silva Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Administration of multiple machines References: <4.3.2.7.2.20000721115136.00afec00@mail.utexas.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oscar Ricardo Silva wrote: > > Our number of FreeBSD servers are growing. We're also getting more and > more machines running Linux. The problem with these two items is that I'm > being asked to administer more and more of these machines. My question > is: what do people use to administer a number of Unix style machines? As > much as I would like all new installs to be FreeBSD, and where this might > make the situation a little easier, that is not possible. > > I would like to look at open-source tools first (translation: there is no > money to spend on this). One person mentioned something called cfengine, > which I'm starting to look at > . > > Any information would be appreciated. > > Oscar > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message Take a look at Webmin, we used to use it to admin some older Solaris 2.5.1, and a few misc Linux and FreeBSD boxes. Take a look at http://www.webmin.com/webmin/ -- Nathan Vidican webmaster@wmptl.com Windsor Match Plate & Tool Ltd. http://www.wmptl.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message