Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:46:58 -0800 From: Koroush Saraf <koroush.saraf@lmco.com> To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions Message-ID: <004a01c1c149$15f47440$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> References: <004501c1bfb4$e1a1f270$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH>
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Thanks folks for all your help, I'll investigate your feedback. Is there any place on the web that I can download sample scripts and tools using <rsync> to update multiple computers? regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koroush Saraf" <koroush.saraf@lmco.com> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:33 AM Subject: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message
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