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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randy Smith [mailto:randys@amigo.net]
> 
> I'm the lone Sys Admin (and company programmer) for a 
> small-ish ISP in 
> Colorado and maintain a dozen or so FreeBSD servers. (Email, 

Me too... (except for the Colorado thingie)

> Web, RADIUS, 
> DNS, etc.) I frequently find that I don't have enough time in 
> the course of a 
> day to keep track of everything that I need to with the 
> servers. How do you 
> all cope with the administrative load as the number of servers go up?

Two words: Automate & Delegate

Make scripts that save you time and make them so easy that any zerobrain in
the company can run them.

At least... that's the way I'm trying to do it...

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