From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 6 10:39:22 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09DDD37B401 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:39:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.liwing.de (mail.liwing.de [213.70.188.162]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AFB4B43ED1 for ; Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:39:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rehsack@liwing.de) Received: (qmail 49037 invoked from network); 6 Dec 2002 18:39:12 -0000 Received: from stingray.liwing.de (HELO liwing.de) ([213.70.188.164]) (envelope-sender ) by mail.liwing.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 6 Dec 2002 18:39:12 -0000 Message-ID: <3DF0EE93.1070505@liwing.de> Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 19:38:11 +0100 From: Jens Rehsack Organization: LiWing IT-Services User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020823 Netscape/7.0 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "BigBrother (BigB3)" Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Administering a large number of freebsd machines References: <20021206201457.H10707-100000@bigb3server.bbcluster.gr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit 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 BigBrother (BigB3) wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > (I sent this email to freebsd-security but it never appeared on the > list, nor it returned back-very strange for freebsd-security;does freebsd > security has any problem?) > The question below is not security related. Maybe that's why you didn't get an answer. > I have a small question. When I was administering one freebsd box the > things were quite easily. I could easily read the emails that were sent to > root, the logcheck reports and the tripwire reports. You can also easily sent the messages to a central mail account and read them at once. > After administering one box, I was made responsible for other freebsd > boxes...The fact is that now the email reports have been > multiplied. Also making all the neccesary upgrades, monitoring and other > everyday things has been made very time consuming. > > My question is...Is there any usefull guide or book of how you can > administer efficiently large number of freebsd boxes in term of security, > upgrades and software deployment? My job is not being a full day system > administrator and thus I have to be involved as low time i administering > the boxes as possible. Did you read the FreeBSD handbook and the book "The complete FreeBSD"? If not, it's a good start. You can find many things at http://www.freebsd.org/docs.html and http://www.freebsdmall.com/ - but I do not really understand what are you searching for, so a quick check by you may help you to decide :-) > Thank you very much in advance for any usefull tip! No thanks and good luck, Jens > > - --- > We are being monitored..but there is a solution... > Use PGP for signing and encrypting emails!!!! > Download my public key at http://www.us.pgp.net > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) > > iD8DBQE98OpbGe/V3CxAyHoRAmt6AKDGIxyQqPE+R8/TzcAbYisy6VpZvACcDxpU > jwoKbT2q84uRDtc5tPyq1EU= > =rNDW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- L i W W W i Jens Rehsack L W W W L i W W W W i nnn gggg LiWing IT-Services L i W W W W i n n g g LLLL i W W i n n g g Friesenstraße 2 gggg 06112 Halle g g g Tel.: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 91 ggg e-Mail: Fax: +49 - 3 45 - 5 17 05 92 http://www.liwing.de/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message