From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Dec 30 8:17:10 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com [65.24.0.112]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 29AA937B417 for ; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 08:16:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from potentialtech.com (dhcp065-024-023-038.columbus.rr.com [65.24.23.38]) by clmboh1-smtp3.columbus.rr.com (8.11.2/8.11.2) with ESMTP id fBUGCDg03168; Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:12:13 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C2F3EAD.6090809@potentialtech.com> Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 11:19:57 -0500 From: Bill Moran Organization: Potential Technology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:0.9.3) Gecko/20010914 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gabriel Ambuehl Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: "Cluster" administration software... References: <94174320199.20011230143124@buz.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: > Hello, > I'm looking for tools to facilitate the administration of a FreeBSD > server farm, mainly tools to push package updates over the whole farm > but other things like globals configuration file updates would be > nice NIS might be what you're looking for. It will push user/group/hosts/ services files to clients. You could mount your ports tree via NFS, which would allow you to keep all machines up to date while only needing to update one machine. > too. Does anybody know any good tools to do this (cross platform ones > are preferred but FreeBSD GUI would be acceptable, too)? Webmin provides a nice front-end to a lot of this. I don't think you're going to find *1* tool to take care of this for you, but NIS in concert with webmin might do the trick. -- Bill Moran Potential Technology http://www.potentialtech.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message