-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:21:35PM -0800, grover mitchell wrote: > Greetings list, > > I am curious what other sysadmins use to manage hundreds of debian > servers, more specifically, how do you control the > upgrade/installation of packages. I am familiar with cfengine, but we > currently use debian packages to deploy all our current conf files. > Some considerations would be; > > only deploying to specific servers at specific time ( to avoid all > web server being down, for example) Hi Grover, just an idea that came to me... create a few different personal repositories(apt-cacher,apt-proxy,..) lets say A, B, C ... have machines 1-10 use A, 11-20 use B, ... if A is updated on day 1, B is updated on day 7, ... then when you issue 'apt-get upgrade;apt-get update;' on each machine, it will upgrade at different times. Cheers, Kev - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal | 'under construction' | | `. `' Operating System | go to counter.li.org and | | `- http://www.debian.org/ | be counted! #238656 | | my keysever: subkeys.pgp.net | my NPO: cfsg.org | -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)
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