From owner-freebsd-cluster Fri Mar 1 9:47:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Received: from mailgw3a.lmco.com (mailgw3a.lmco.com [192.35.35.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C5B037B41A for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:47:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from emss01g01.ems.lmco.com ([129.197.181.54]) by mailgw3a.lmco.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g21Hl5x25480 for ; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 12:47:05 -0500 (EST) Received: from CONVERSION-DAEMON by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-33 #38886) id <0GSB00J012QEWH@lmco.com> for freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org; Fri, 1 Mar 2002 09:47:02 -0800 (PST) Received: from BSDWIN2KKOROUSH ([129.197.23.48]) by lmco.com (PMDF V5.2-33 #38886) with SMTP id <0GSB002W22QCA4@lmco.com> for freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org; Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:47:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 09:46:58 -0800 From: Koroush Saraf Subject: Re: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions To: freebsd-cluster@freebsd.org Message-id: <004a01c1c149$15f47440$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> MIME-version: 1.0 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4807.1700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4807.1700 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-priority: Normal References: <004501c1bfb4$e1a1f270$3017c581@BSDWIN2KKOROUSH> Sender: owner-freebsd-cluster@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks folks for all your help, I'll investigate your feedback. Is there any place on the web that I can download sample scripts and tools using to update multiple computers? regards. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Koroush Saraf" To: ; Sent: Wednesday, February 27, 2002 9:33 AM Subject: Mass Upgrade and Maintenance questions > Dear wise people, > > I plan to maintain a lab of 36 freeBSD4.3 Pentium computers and I have > several questions. These computes are all stand alone PC's connected > together via 100Mb Ethernet and they do not run any type of shared file > system. There is also a console computer that I can use to configure these > 36 lab computers. I will attempt to list my questions in a concise manor, > but if there is anything I didn't mention please ask me. I thank you for > your assistance in advance: > > Question 1: > I like to upgrade the software on these systems to the latest revision of > bsd > via a console station in the simplest way. All computers have .rhosts file > permitting the console computer to access them. I have read about cvsup > and > portupgrade utility, but don't know if I should use them in this case. I > have a FreeBSD CD release that I can load in the console computer and run a > cvsupd. I would like to know a clear procedure on how to accomplish this > task. Please link me to a webpage, post a script, or refer me to any > man pages that are applicable. > > Question 2: > How do I install additional packages to all the computers using the console > computer. For example I like to add say ncftp to all 36 computers. How do > I > do that from the console computer? > > Question 3: > I would like to add user accounts to all these computers, however I noticed > that I cannot simply replicated the /etc/master.passwd file & /etc/group to > all the computers and expect it to work. Actually I prefer to issue the > adduser command on all the computers via remote shell. If you think this is > a good idea, tell me how to do this so that I can automatically fill in the > fields for the 'adduser' prompts. If there is a better and simpler way, I > like to know. > > Well I have more questions but I think at this point this is all I like to > tackle. I point out again that these computers are stand alone pc's not > sharing any file system (AFS, NFS, etc. ) and are all connected via Ethernet > and are all on the same subnet. > > Thanks in advance and with regards, > > Koroush Saraf > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-cluster" in the body of the message