From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 19 17:12:42 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 05CF8106566B for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: from mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC32E8FC14 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chuckr@chuckr.org) Received: (qmail 582 invoked from network); 19 Mar 2008 17:12:41 -0000 Received: from april.chuckr.org (chuckr@[66.92.151.30]) (envelope-sender ) by mail6.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with AES256-SHA encrypted SMTP for ; 19 Mar 2008 17:12:41 -0000 Message-ID: <47E14847.7050309@chuckr.org> Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:07:19 -0400 From: Chuck Robey User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20071107) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Moran References: <47DF1045.6050202@chuckr.org> <20080318085343.eed4474c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: <20080318085343.eed4474c.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.5 OpenPGP: id=F3DCA0E9; url=http://pgp.mit.edu Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:12:42 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moran wrote: > 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. I left it vague on purpose, because I know I am speaking to a crowd thjat certainly includes folks who know more on the subject than i do, and I was curious as to what woud pop up. I filled in some more of the puzzle in a separate email i just sent (so i won't duplicate that all here), but I have already begun to learn, because, no, I didn't know off all these links. I was thinking (very, very quickly) of putting our smp and the Ganglia thing into a mixer, 2 minutes at high speed, and see what came out? Anyhow, thanks for the links, please don't hesitate to give me more on this subject (this fuzzy cloud?) > > 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/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH4UhHz62J6PPcoOkRAvwFAJ9Y3Q1osqjUJVrQrB89Ya9RczLIowCbBC8V xqihMxtA9lwvt2TEPl8xBN0= =6QlR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----