Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:52:21 -0800 From: Danny Howard <dannyman@toldme.com> To: Koroush Saraf <koroush.saraf@lmco.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions Message-ID: <20020227095221.F3896@pianosa.catch22.org> In-Reply-To: <004501c1bfb4$e1a1f270$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>; from koroush.saraf@lmco.com on Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:33:34AM -0800 References: <004501c1bfb4$e1a1f270$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2002 at 09:33:34AM -0800, Koroush Saraf wrote: > 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. NFS? I'd mount 4.5-RELEASE /usr/src on all these machines, make buildworld and buildkernel, then write a script that goes to each in turn installs both. Maybe put the procedure in an install.sh and do like this: #!/bin/sh for m in machine1 machine2 ; do rcmd $machine1 /usr/src/install.sh done > 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? pkg_add(1). > 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. That sounds like a terrible idea. For one, adduser is interactive. For two, if you do start using NFS, you run the risk of everyone having different UIDs on each machine. Then, how does a user change their password? They have to do this 36 times! YARGH!!!! Copy /etc/master.passwd, copy /etc/group, then run pwd_mkdb(8). Or, get clever and put your account in NIS or LDAP and tell your computers to use these. > 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. So, for 1), buildworld and kernel, then rsync /usr/src to each machine before installing. You can find rsync in ports. It is the niftiest thing ever. -- http://dannyman.toldme.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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