From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 9 16:59:31 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B0C916A416 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:59:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: from post1.network-i.net (antigua.network-i.net [212.21.121.181]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1B77913C469 for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2007 16:59:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howie@thingy.com) Received: (qmail 85681 invoked from network); 9 Jan 2007 16:32:47 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.1.1.134?) (212.21.99.52) by post1.network-i.net with SMTP; 9 Jan 2007 16:32:47 -0000 Message-ID: <45A3C343.3010807@thingy.com> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:30:59 +0000 From: Howard Jones User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Management techiniques for multiple FreeBSD servers? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:59:31 -0000 Hi, I'm looking around for any articles/docs regarding techniques for managing groups of FreeBSD servers - things like running a local package mirror or build server, standardised installs, update management - all the usual boring stuff. I know that people like Yahoo use thousands of *BSD systems, but does anyone have any pointers on tools to make day-to-day management of them scale? Best Regards, Howie