From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Mar 1 8:51: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from yertle.kciLink.com (yertle.kcilink.com [216.194.193.105]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2774A37B41C for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 08:51:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from onceler.kciLink.com (onceler.kciLink.com [216.194.193.106]) by yertle.kciLink.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EEE5217BC for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:50:58 -0500 (EST) Received: (from khera@localhost) by onceler.kciLink.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g21GowB89831; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:50:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from khera) Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 11:50:58 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <200203011650.g21GowB89831@onceler.kciLink.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: Vivek Khera To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions Newsgroups: ml.freebsd.questions References: <004501c1bfb4$e1a1f270$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> X-Trace: lorax.kciLink.com 1015000577 57349 216.194.193.106 (1 Mar 2002 16:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: daemon@kciLink.com Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >>>>> "KS" == Koroush Saraf 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