Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Maybe, dsh -distributed shell- is a good starting point?
Using dsh illustrates a push-method. For a small number of machines pushing works and for when you are monitoring the process manually then pushing to machines work pretty well. But when setting up hundreds or thousands of machines then invariably a number of those machines will be down at the moment that you are trying to push to them. Although dsh is a fine tool using the push-method runs into process problems pretty quickly. A better way is a pull-method. Have the clients pull the updates from a server. This way if the client is powered down, hung on a stale nfs mount, run out of memory by a runaway process, or otherwise incapacitated then when it becomes operational again it will pull all pending updates and get back up to date again. Here is a summary of the issues: http://www.infrastructures.org/bootstrap/pushpull.shtml I strongly recommend going with a pull process. Bob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
