Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:49:32 -0500 (EST) From: <mike@lanline.com> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: management Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10601121738030.19901-100000@mail.lanline.com>
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Hi all, Sorry, I know I've asked a question similar to this in the past, but... I am currently in the process of migrating from BSD/OS to FreeBSD. I'm very concerned with the management of my new FreeBSD server farm. There doesn't seem to be much documentation in the way of large scale FreeBSD management. I posted a question recently about upgrades (having one server w/ the source and NFS mounting the source dirs to all the other machines and building that way), but I feel like some minor details are missing. Like, can I or should I redirect the obj code to a directory on the local machine so I don't have to do a make clean as I go from server to server (and if so, can I do this through make.conf)? Same thing with ports. Also, I know about portupgrade, but is that the best way to manage ports? Is there something better? And the port system itself... I know it's supposed to provide all this flexibility, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation about what variables can be set or anything (e.g. can I force the binary to get installed in a certain dir?) I know I could look in the makefiles and stuff, but I really don't have that kind of time (damn sys. admining) Is there some documentation or something I don't know about that answers questions like these? I mean the handbook is great for general config. questions, but I'm more interested in server farm management and maintenance. Thank you very much in advance for any help. Hopefully I won't have many more stupid questions. -Mike
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