We are in the process of setting up several stand-alone intel boxes
running debian linux. Have other users come up with good solutions to
the following:
1. Maintaining uniform installations without nfs-mounting a
common filesystem. We'd rather have redundant /usr
filesystems than have our machines freeze after each hiccup on
the net. Is there a way to turn the output of "dpkg -l" into
a useable script for reproducing one machine's setup on
another?
2. Distributing important /etc files without NIS. We'd rather
not run NIS, and figure on using rdist+DNS instead. Has anyone
made this work with the "passwd" program, or even with shadow
passwords? We think that for a relatively small network NIS
introduces too much confusion (vis-a-vis DNS) to be
worthwhile.
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