On 04/05/07, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 07:51 +0300, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > Omer Zak wrote: > > Why are you unifying all the Linux servers in one distribution? > > Won't this expose your organization's computers to the dangers of > > monoculture? > >
(I didn't see your original question, hence the answer to this iteration). Basically - as a long time Debian user (and having just less than two years experience with RHEL 4) I arrived to this company which has about 4 different Linux distros on its servers, at least two of the machines which run the same distro are configured differently and have different software installed on them (e.g. proftpd vs. pure-ftpd), and recently I learned what "yum update" really means and found that, not surprisingly, they are way out of date. The servers were "maintained" (for want of a better word) so far by people who didn't put Linux system administration as their career goals, to say the least (not that they excelled in programming either...) So the bottom line is that I want to be able to keep track of system updates without having to learn the specific tricks of each distribution, and I want to know that once I learn how to configure something on one box I'll be able to replicate it to the other boxes easily (using automatic tools). I believe that this will result in a better maintained and more secure network than if I have to keep juggling too many types of balls and take care of systems which are "not my cup of tee". --Amos (Another example from just this morning - I finally learned how to configure the SNMP daemon on Debian to give me more access, and even managed to apply my new knowledge on a couple of FC 5 machines, but the RH 9 machine has a much older SNMP daemon which wouldn't work with the config file).
