From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Dec 20 9:25:17 2000 From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 20 09:25:15 2000 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mail.numachi.com (numachi.numachi.com [198.175.254.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 21BFB37B400 for ; Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:25:15 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 10876 invoked by uid 3001); 20 Dec 2000 17:25:13 -0000 Received: from natto.numachi.com (198.175.254.216) by numachi.numachi.com with SMTP; 20 Dec 2000 17:25:13 -0000 Received: (qmail 16638 invoked by uid 1001); 20 Dec 2000 17:25:13 -0000 Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:25:13 -0500 From: Brian Reichert To: Mike Nowlin Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: keeping lots of systems all the same... Message-ID: <20001220122513.D16241@numachi.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from mike@argos.org on Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500 Sender: reichert@natto.numachi.com Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Dec 20, 2000 at 03:15:40AM -0500, Mike Nowlin wrote: > > I recently made the decision to upgrade all of our net-booted X terminals > to full-blown workstations. (Basically, adding a hard drive and some > memory.) Having 19 people running Netscape remotely on our Alpha is > sucking up a gig of RAM and almost two gigs of swap, not to mention the > "normal" things the Alpha has to do... > > After fighting off (quite violently, I might add) the top-level > management who wanted to "just give everyone a Windows 98 machine - I > never have any problems with mine at home...!", I came up with the > following: > > -- Celeron 700-ish, 100Mb FXP, 20G, 64 or 128M, S3 or ATI Rage video > -- NIS for uname/passwd auth - any user can use any machine > -- /home mounted via NFS off a master file server for the users' files > -- everything else (with whatever exceptions I find) on the local HD. > -- (suggestions???) > > The users will basically need to be able to run X w/Gnome, StarOffice, > Nutscrape, and (the huge, resource-hogging app) telnet. > > I'm planning on building a fairly big machine to do world builds on to > keep these machines (30-ish) all synced to the same OS version, probably > with weekly installworlds on them. > > > Questions > --------- > > Handling the OS updates is pretty easy... Is there any equally easy way > to keep a particular set of ports updated automatically? I'd like to > avoid having to do a "make deinstall; make install" all the time... I've been using CVSup for privisioning for a couple of years. That can be pretty handy... -- Brian 'you Bastard' Reichert 37 Crystal Ave. #303 Daytime number: (603) 434-6842 Derry NH 03038-1713 USA Intel architecture: the left-hand path To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message