Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:50:58 -0500 (EST) From: Vivek Khera <khera@kcilink.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions Message-ID: <200203011650.g21GowB89831@onceler.kciLink.com> References: <004501c1bfb4$e1a1f270$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>
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>>>>> "KS" == Koroush Saraf <koroush.saraf@lmco.com> writes: KS> Dear wise people, KS> I plan to maintain a lab of 36 freeBSD4.3 Pentium computers and I have KS> several questions. These computes are all stand alone PC's connected The only way to save your sanity while maintaining that many boxes is to automate the whole process. Check out "cfengine" in the ports tree for managing your per-machine configurations, and at least put up a NFS-shared /usr/src and /usr/obj for doing the upgrade installs (unless you do CD-ROM installs). Make the software on every machine identical. Using rdist (or rsync) makes this easy for your /usr/local, and the NFS copy of /usr/obj make make installworld go easy on the remote boxes. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: khera@kciLink.com Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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