> 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 appropriate. In previous gigs I've used roll your own > | packages. At one place, however, we had an admin using cfengine. Looks > | interesting, but even I know enough to not consider des encrypted :). It > | also mightily takes away from the wonderful, simple file structure > | configuration that *NIX has[1]. > | > | Anything out there that anyone wants to recommend? Anything that works > | really well with debian? Not often that I get a homogenious Linux network to > | play with :). > > 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 all unified on > the server.
I suggest a ramdisk on all those client (i.e. ramdisk cached /home/user and non-ramdisk /home/user/storage/) for all those thin-clients. this is to solve the 'customization problem'. > > -D -- A gas which obeys to the perfect gas equation is a perfect gas, where the perfect gas equation describes the relationship between pressure, volume and temperature of a perfect gas.
