From owner-freebsd-cluster Wed Feb 27 9:33:49 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9FBDA37B400; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:33:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from emss01g01.ems.lmco.com ([129.197.181.54]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA26760; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:33:40 -0500 (EST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-33 #38886) id <0GS700A01CS2YF@lmco.com>; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:33:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from BSDWIN2KKOROUSH ([129.197.23.48]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-33 #38886) with SMTP id <0GS7004QWCRX1P@lmco.com>; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:33:33 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:33:34 -0800 From: Koroush Saraf Subject: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Message-id: <004501c1bfb4$e1a1f270$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dear wise people, I plan to maintain a lab of 36 freeBSD4.3 Pentium computers and I have several questions. These computes are all stand alone PC's connected together via 100Mb Ethernet and they do not run any type of shared file system. There is also a console computer that I can use to configure these 36 lab computers. I will attempt to list my questions in a concise manor, but if there is anything I didn't mention please ask me. I thank you for your assistance in advance: Question 1: I like to upgrade the software on these systems to the latest revision of bsd via a console station in the simplest way. All computers have .rhosts file permitting the console computer to access them. I have read about cvsup and portupgrade utility, but don't know if I should use them in this case. I have a FreeBSD CD release that I can load in the console computer and run a cvsupd. I would like to know a clear procedure on how to accomplish this task. Please link me to a webpage, post a script, or refer me to any man pages that are applicable. Question 2: How do I install additional packages to all the computers using the console computer. For example I like to add say ncftp to all 36 computers. How do I do that from the console computer? Question 3: I would like to add user accounts to all these computers, however I noticed that I cannot simply replicated the /etc/master.passwd file & /etc/group to all the computers and expect it to work. Actually I prefer to issue the adduser command on all the computers via remote shell. If you think this is a good idea, tell me how to do this so that I can automatically fill in the fields for the 'adduser' prompts. If there is a better and simpler way, I like to know. Well I have more questions but I think at this point this is all I like to tackle. I point out again that these computers are stand alone pc's not sharing any file system (AFS, NFS, etc. ) and are all connected via Ethernet and are all on the same subnet. Thanks in advance and with regards, Koroush Saraf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message