Behan Webster wrote: > > Lindsay Allen wrote: > > > > Tim, > > > > IIRC Brian White has advocated cfengine for this task. > > > > If I may, he advocated it because we used it here at Verisim to manage > our workstations and servers. Unfortunately we found although it did > work, it was rather clumsy, and didn't scale well in our environment. > > I have written a script (called cfile) which has all the functionality > of what we had cfengine doing for us before. It needs a bit of a work > (since we've been using it for 4 months we've noticed some places it > could be improved). > > All in all though, it seems to do the trick of managing a small network > of near identical machines (hardware wise). It can also specially > configure certain machines to provide services (dns, web, ftp, etc). I > am confident that it would scale much larger. > > Tim, if you are interested in seeing my developement code let me know. > It's implementation will be taking a big change, but it's basic working > will be the same. (i.e. the current version of cfile will give you an > idea of it's capabilities and features). > > I plan on making a debian package of it once I am done my overhaul and > make it even more generic (I want to use this same tool on my home > network, here at Verisim, and on several other friend's networks).
I'll pass the info along, Behan. Thanks. At this point, I'm not officially involved, although this may end up being a new job here at the Lab for me. For some reason, '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' gets routed to my mailbox.. :) Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps They tell me my job is easy... anyone can do it. Why doesn't anyone else want it? -- me ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.** -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
