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

adminning mult boxen

2001-08-27 Thread der.hans
moin, moin, luckily we're all debian at work. Makes life really, really easy admin-wise. We are now, however, needing to get serious about making sure config changes get rolled out as appropriate. In previous gigs I've used roll your own packages. At one place, however, we had an admin using cfen