Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 09:33:34 -0800 From: Koroush Saraf <koroush.saraf@lmco.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions Message-ID: <004501c1bfb4$e1a1f270$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>
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Dear wise people, I plan to maintain a lab of 36 freeBSD4.3 Pentium computers and I have several questions. These computes are all stand alone PC's connected together via 100Mb Ethernet and they do not run any type of shared file system. There is also a console computer that I can use to configure these 36 lab computers. I will attempt to list my questions in a concise manor, but if there is anything I didn't mention please ask me. I thank you for your assistance in advance: 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. 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? 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. 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. Thanks in advance and with regards, Koroush Saraf To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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