From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 21 9:58:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.utexas.edu (wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu [128.83.126.136]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5106237BD0E for ; Fri, 21 Jul 2000 09:58:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from oscars@mail.utexas.edu) Received: (qmail 26324 invoked by uid 0); 21 Jul 2000 16:58:35 -0000 Received: from chepe.cc.utexas.edu (HELO chepe.mail.utexas.edu) (128.83.135.25) by umbs-smtp-2 with SMTP; 21 Jul 2000 16:58:35 -0000 Message-Id: <4.3.2.7.2.20000721115136.00afec00@mail.utexas.edu> X-Sender: oscars@mail.utexas.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 4.3.2 Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 11:55:48 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Oscar Ricardo Silva Subject: Administration of multiple machines Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Our number of FreeBSD servers are growing. We're also getting more and more machines running Linux. The problem with these two items is that I'm being asked to administer more and more of these machines. My question is: what do people use to administer a number of Unix style machines? As much as I would like all new installs to be FreeBSD, and where this might make the situation a little easier, that is not possible. I would like to look at open-source tools first (translation: there is no money to spend on this). One person mentioned something called cfengine, which I'm starting to look at . Any information would be appreciated. Oscar To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message