Daniel Whelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing and
> maintaining a large number of Debian machines. While I absolutely
> love apt-get, manually apt-getting a hundred machines to upgrade one
> piece of software is suboptimal. Is there any w
Ciao Daniel Whelan,
> Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing and maintaining
> a large number of Debian machines.
this is my situation & solution (not perfect but it works :-)
CLIENTs: 15 PC (AMD/INTEL) Debian 2.2 + NIS
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ df -h
FilesystemType
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 01:23:07PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote:
> Nice solution...I was looking into creating a dummy package of just the
> config files we needed to install a configuration specific to our setup,
> but this might work as well.
FYI, you can't install two different packages containin
> i love dpkg-repack! you can setup a box, then recreate the .deb with
> your settings, and install it anywhere. (ok, my debian network is four
> machines, so this approach may be worth just 0.02$...)
Nice solution...I was looking into creating a dummy package of just the
config files we needed to
> Hmm, it would seem to me that you would need to dpkg-repack packages every
> time¹ they get upgraded. Unless you do that before an initial installation,
> the customized changes won't be included. Once installed, either way, the
> changes persist thanks to the way conffiles are handled.
ok, now
On Sat, Feb 03, 2001 at 09:42:47AM +0100, Pietro Cagnoni wrote:
> i love dpkg-repack! you can setup a box, then recreate the .deb with
> your settings, and install it anywhere. (ok, my debian network is four
> machines, so this approach may be worth just 0.02$...)
Ahh, thanks for the tip, I had ne
> One thing we haven't fully decided yet is that whether we should keep
> network-wide configuration files in /usr/local and replace original files
> with symlinks, or should we use rsync or similar to keep every system in
> sync. The former has the advantage of making the change instantaneous
> wh
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:40:42PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote:
> Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing and
> maintaining a large number of Debian machines. While I absolutely love
> apt-get, manually apt-getting a hundred machines to upgrade one piece of
> software is subopt
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:40:42PM -0500, Daniel Whelan wrote:
> Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing
> and maintaining a large number of Debian machines. While I
> absolutely love apt-get, manually apt-getting a hundred
> machines to upgrade one piece of software is subopt
Greetings - I am currently looking for a solution to managing and maintaining a
large number of Debian machines. While I absolutely love apt-get, manually
apt-getting a hundred machines to upgrade one piece of software is suboptimal.
Is there any way to automate this process? One solution that h
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