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Subject: Re: push a few config files to dozen or so servers
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On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 13:02:34 +0100, Marko Cupa=C4=87 <marko.cupac@mimar.=
rs>  =

wrote:

> Hi,
>
> thanks to virtualization, my fleet of FreeBSD hosts have grown to more=

> than dozen, and it still grows. There are some files that need to be
> identical on all of them (aliases, sudoers, root crontab, pkg repo
> files etc.).
>
> I was looking at puppet and cfengine but learning and implementing tho=
se
> seem like an overkill for my purpose.
>
> Are there any other elegant solutions which can help me achieve my goa=
l?
>
> Thank you in advance,

Cron and rsync.
Or create a pkg which you install on all servers.

Just some quick ideas. In the end you just want to use something like  =

puppet. :-)

Ronald.