Date: Sat, 03 Feb 1996 09:14:56 -0500 From: Andrew Heybey <ath@bellcore.com> To: "Karl Denninger, MCSNet" <karl@mcs.com> Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard), hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: And the winner is! Message-ID: <199602031414.JAA01796@grapenuts.bellcore.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of Fri, 02 Feb 1996 10:19:32 -0600. <m0tiOCz-000IDUC@venus.mcs.com>
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[Please excuse the preceding fumble-fingered screw-up sent to the list. C-c C-c (mh-send-letter) is very close to C-x C-x on the keyboard.] karl> No, we want to be able to have a "code server" which can load, karl> and keep updated, multiple machines. That is, when I have karl> system #15 to load, I want to plug in the Ethernet, point the karl> new box at the server, and say "go fetch your load, kid". karl> Also, the ability to somehow have this update process karl> automated (so that I only have to make a code change on *ONE* karl> machine) would be nice. When I was running 1.1.5.1, I had something like this set up using a program called reconcile (ftp://mercury.lcs.mit.edu/pub/shep/reconcile-*). Reconcile is sort of like rdist in reverse (client pull instead of server push) only better (IMHO). I hacked the boot floppy to (after newfs'ing the disk(s)) ask for enough information to configure the network interface then NFS mount the server and build the file system. [BTW I can't take any credit for this idea--Tim Shepard wrote reconcile and he and several others set up a network full of uVaxen this way at LCS.] This is all broken now that I'm running 2.something, but I'll be getting a few new machines soon so I might be motivated to resurrect it. If anyone is interested (and if I actually do it) I would be willing to give away the reconcile config files and boot floppy hacks that I do. andrew
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