Re: conf management for many debian boxes

2008-06-09 Thread Neil Watson
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:45:45AM -0400, Donald wrote: I'll definitely have to look into cfengine and puppet. I took a quick gander, and it doesn't look quite like what I had in mind as far as workflow goes, but it looks like the goals are very similar to what I'm looking for. I brought a col

Re: conf management for many debian boxes

2008-06-09 Thread Donald
> Puppet is the "new" one, and is nicer in many respects, but > there aren't packages for Sarge at least - so that might be a > dealbreaker. > Common place, and sometime with other distributions, and even, other Unix, and > why not Windows server... I'll definitely have to look into cfengine a

Re: conf management for many debian boxes

2008-06-08 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Jun 08, 2008 at 11:55:17 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > At first, I'd recommend you to look at puppet or cfengine. Seconded. There is a brief introduction to this here: http://www.debian-administration.org/tag/cfengine I use it at home on 3 machines (10+ xen guests) and at wo

Re: conf management for many debian boxes

2008-06-08 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Sunday 08 June 2008 05:55:44 Donald, vous avez écrit : > Hi, Hi, > I was wondering if there was an application that was a repository for > managing files/configs across many Debian and/or Linux boxes. I'd > like to not reinvent the wheel if such an application exists, and if > not, get to wor