Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:06:48 -0600 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@over-yonder.net> To: Jon Simola <jon@abccomm.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org, "mike@lanline.com" <mike@lanline.com> Subject: Re: management Message-ID: <20060113060648.GE20029@over-yonder.net> In-Reply-To: <8eea04080601121601y3b534c71y322e20c1f6c32e73@mail.gmail.com> References: <Pine.BSI.4.05L.10601121738030.19901-100000@mail.lanline.com> <8eea04080601121601y3b534c71y322e20c1f6c32e73@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:01:49PM -0800 I heard the voice of Jon Simola, and lo! it spake thus: As with most such things, this all boils down to "what works for you right now in your specific case." But, just for the sake of dialogue... > What I'm doing now is all my machines have a common NFS mounted /usr > and /var/db/pkg so installing a port/package on any one of them > means they all have the package installed. I would tend toward instead using rsync/rdist to manage /usr from a central location, and leave it on local disks. It saves having your whole network die when your NFS server goes down, and is also a lot faster. Plus, it lets you more easily maintain individual machine configs in /usr/local/etc, and handle some things (PostgreSQL comes to mind) which write their running data under /usr/local. > But it it something that, in *my* experience and in *my* particular > setup saves me a lot of time. Which is pretty much what it all boils down to; EVERY situation is unique in some way, and every person finds a slightly different layout works for them. Heck, I did upgrades from source on running, important servers, directly from 2.2.8-S to a 4.3 or 4.4-ish era 4-S; I certainly wouldn't recommend THAT to anybody who could stay out of a mental institution, but It Worked For Me(tm). -- Matthew Fuller (MF4839) | fullermd@over-yonder.net Systems/Network Administrator | http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/ On the Internet, nobody can hear you scream.
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