Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread Jonathan D. Proulx
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 03:33:02PM -0700, der.hans wrote: :> Once you've figured out what exactly you want to do, you can try to :> find something in the usual places (like sourceforge), or write a bunch :> of cron + ssh + perl + CVS scripts to do what you want. : :I'm gonna as on the SAGE mailing

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread der.hans
Am 27. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Dimitri Maziuk so: > The only tool I can think of is pen and paper: audit all those computers > and work out which files on which boxen can be distributed as is, which > need to be edited for a particular box, etc. That's easy enough. It's getting the engine that tracks

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread Dimitri Maziuk
* der.hans ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake thusly: ... > > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and > > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered > > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the > > terminals have no config on the

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread der.hans
Am 27. Aug, 2001 schwäzte Calvin Chong so: > I was thinking of a internet-cafe like solution for that, but with a bit > permanent > storage - that is, the rebooting-means-reborning-scene. We are doing that. When a customer is done, we save their changes, then either load a fresh install or the ne

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread der.hans
Am 27. Aug, 2001 schwäzte dman so: > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the > terminals have no config on them to deal with, it is

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 10:09:27PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > | > | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > | > box th

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
> On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: > > | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and > | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered > | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the > | > termi

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Mon, Aug 27, 2001 at 09:42:17PM +0800, Calvin Chong wrote: | > Perhaps you can take the hard drives out of most of the boxes and | > stick them in a single high-powered box. Then make that high-powered | > box the server and the rest as diskless X terminals. This way the | > terminals have no

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread Calvin Chong
> On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote: > | moin, moin, > | > | luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. > > I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky. > > | We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes > | get rol

Re: adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread dman
On Sun, Aug 26, 2001 at 11:52:06PM -0700, der.hans wrote: | moin, moin, | | luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. I'd like to use Debian at work. Lucky. | We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes | get rolled out as appr