I highly recommend cfEngine: http://www.iu.hioslo.no/cfengine/
It's a great tool for managing large heterogeneous networks. It takes a little forethought for the setup, but is well worth it once in place. -- Jeff On Wed, 1 Mar 2000, Stephen A. Witt wrote: > I seem to have started a Debian thing in the company that I work for. It > seems to be spreading. As the number of machines that we configure with > Debian grows, system administration issues start to raise their ugly > heads. We've recently gotten a dedicated sysadmin guy to take over the > admin tasks. He is very knowledgeable on Solaris, HPUX, and probably some > others, but is new to Linux. He and I are having a bit of a debate right > now as to the most effective way to manage these machines. > > We've got NIS running and all user accounts are automounted from a Sun > Sparc running Solaris. We have a mixed Solaris, Linux installation. So far > so good. What our sysadmin would like to do (this is typically what he > does for other Unixes) is to install client machines with a very basic set > of functionality. Then he would compile each application that would be > provided and install it into a directory in /home (e.g. /home/cvs/bin), > which would also be automounted when necessary from one of the client > machines. I see this as a little silly when, for Debian at least, nearly > all of the applications we use are easily installed on all the machines in > the normal Debian way. Our sysadmin sees the Debian way as interesting, > but a requirement for him to visit 25 machines instead of 1. > > My question is, is there anyone out there, preferably a sysadmin type, who > has experience with this type of thing and could give us some advice. > > Thanks... > Steve > > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null >
