From owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 12 22:49:34 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C23E16A420 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:49:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@lanline.com) Received: from mail.lanline.com (mail.lanline.com [216.187.0.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15AD243D45 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:49:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mike@lanline.com) Received: from localhost (mike@localhost) by mail.lanline.com (8.11.6/8.11.2) with ESMTP id k0CMnWY23746 for ; Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:49:33 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 17:49:32 -0500 (EST) From: To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: management X-BeenThere: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Internet Services Providers List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 22:49:34 -0000 Hi all, Sorry, I know I've asked a question similar to this in the past, but... I am currently in the process of migrating from BSD/OS to FreeBSD. I'm very concerned with the management of my new FreeBSD server farm. There doesn't seem to be much documentation in the way of large scale FreeBSD management. I posted a question recently about upgrades (having one server w/ the source and NFS mounting the source dirs to all the other machines and building that way), but I feel like some minor details are missing. Like, can I or should I redirect the obj code to a directory on the local machine so I don't have to do a make clean as I go from server to server (and if so, can I do this through make.conf)? Same thing with ports. Also, I know about portupgrade, but is that the best way to manage ports? Is there something better? And the port system itself... I know it's supposed to provide all this flexibility, but there doesn't seem to be any documentation about what variables can be set or anything (e.g. can I force the binary to get installed in a certain dir?) I know I could look in the makefiles and stuff, but I really don't have that kind of time (damn sys. admining) Is there some documentation or something I don't know about that answers questions like these? I mean the handbook is great for general config. questions, but I'm more interested in server farm management and maintenance. Thank you very much in advance for any help. Hopefully I won't have many more stupid questions. -Mike