From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 18 13:03:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E437A106566C for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com (mx00.pub.collaborativefusion.com [206.210.89.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99E318FC17 for ; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:03:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from wmoran@collaborativefusion.com) Received: from vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com (vanquish.ws.pitbpa0.priv.collaborativefusion.com [192.168.2.162]) (SSL: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by wingspan with esmtp; Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:53:44 -0400 id 00056413.47DFBB58.0001517F Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:53:43 -0400 From: Bill Moran To: Chuck Robey Message-Id: <20080318085343.eed4474c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <47DF1045.6050202@chuckr.org> References: <47DF1045.6050202@chuckr.org> Organization: Collaborative Fusion X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.8; i386-portbld-freebsd6.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD-Hackers Subject: Re: remote operation or admin X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2008 13:03:49 -0000 In response to Chuck Robey : > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > I have 4 computers, 1 big FreeBSD-current (4 x86 procs), 2 GentooLinux (1 > is a dial AMD Opteron, the other a dual older x86), and 1 MacOSX (dual > PPC). I was thinking about looking for two items, I'm not sure if I want > one or both of them: either some software to let me merely remotely manage > them (public software, mind) or, even better, something to get these > disparate hardwares to be able to work together, and (as much as possible) > to be able to share work. > > What might be the best, in terms of ability, and especially the ability to > make these work together? If they're not a FreeBSD port, as long as > they're reasonably stable, I don't mind porting things, but it needs to be > stable on all those CPUs. Could you reo\commend me something? I'll go > chase each one down, I won't jump on you if you're wrong, gimme your > guesses, ok? Your question is extraordinarily vague. I manage multiple systems remotely using ssh, so I'm not sure what additional "stuff" you want. However, here are some links that may provide some help. All of these are FreeBSD ports, and I'm fairly sure they'll work on Gentoo and OSX as well: http://www.webmin.com/ http://www.cfengine.org/ http://reductivelabs.com/trac/puppet/ -- Bill Moran Collaborative Fusion Inc. http://people.collaborativefusion.com/~wmoran/ wmoran@collaborativefusion.com Phone: 412-422-3463x4023