Quick & Dirty Guide to making your own apt source directories (was Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines)

2000-03-01 Thread Joe Block
"Stephen A. Witt" wrote: > > I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It > seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with > Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly > heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin

Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines

2000-03-01 Thread aphro
while i haven't tried this myself it may be worth a shot. make your own packages for the programs you use in .deb format point all the machines for apt to use http on the solaris box(or ftp, but http is probably easier to maintain) then put the packages on the solaris box. create a packages / pa

Re: Administering large groups of Debian machines

2000-03-01 Thread Jeff Layton
I highly recommend cfEngine: http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/ It's a great tool for managing large heterogeneous networks. It takes a little forethought for the setup, but is well worth it once in place. -- Jeff On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I seem to have started a Debian thin

Administering large groups of Debian machines

2000-03-01 Thread Stephen A. Witt
I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the admin tasks. H