On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 10:37:54AM -0000, Peter Valdemar Morch wrote: > Is there a smarter way? How does one manage many, many debian installations > without having to give each one special manual treatment? Ideally I'd like > this to be a fully automated operation and only be > notified of any failures in a reliable way. > > Rather than trying to write our own scripts, I've searched the > admin::configuring and use::configuring tags and come up with dpsyco, > ugrade-system and fai, but they all seem inappropriate to our needs.
cfengine:
http://www.debian-administration.org/tag/cfengine
It will let you edit files, run scripts, and automate many many things
from one central point. Whilst it won't handle debconf prompting you
can preseed answers and ensure they are used.
There are other similar tools; I think that puppet is the currently
favored "new" system - but at the time I looked at it I didn't have
the impression it was mature enough to use. That seems to have changed
now, but I've not used it.
Steve
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