Hi, On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 05:37:32AM -0700, David D wrote: > Hi, I need the group's help with organizing a small > network in my office. > The office is a part of a big corporation. We have > about 10 various computers (couple of Pentium 4, Xeons > etc) all of them have Mandrake linux installed. > Every computer is connected to the corporate network > (LAN) and has an additional unused network card. The > primary purpose of the computers is number crunching. > Currently the users' home directories are exported > via NFS to the all the computers in the office, so > everybody can work from any station, but the major > part of the work is done locally on user's station. > Users info (/etc/group, /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow), > configurations, and software installations are managed > individually for each computer (which is a hell). > I would like to achieve the following goals: > 1. easier administration: can use NIS for user info,
Or use something like rdist/cfengine, which is simpler. > but still have to manage software/updates > individually. Can I mount /bin, /usr via nfs? Is it a > good idea? Will this solve most of the problems? We actually have here "/" mounted via nfs. You'll have to invest some work in this, but I think it pays. Maybe not for 10 machines - there you can try to use tools to update confs/packages and only keep a shared /usr/local. > 2. better performance and load balance. I'm plan to > install openmosix and interconnect the computers, so > the communication between them does not pass through > the corporate LAN. Any other ideas? I do not have experience with mosix. We run here batch queues, PBS in the past, now condor, and they are quite good for what we use them for. It depends on your needs, of course - mosix is more automatic and less work (I think), but less flexible and controllable (I also think :-) ). > Thanks a lot for the help I would love to hear your experience. Also feel free to ask more if you want to try a shared root. -- Didi ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
