From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Jun 15 16: 9:16 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sv07e.atm-tzs.kmjeuro.com (sv07e.atm-tzs.kmjeuro.com [193.81.94.207]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 787D937B40B for ; Sat, 15 Jun 2002 16:09:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from karl (adsl.ooe.kmjeuro.com [193.81.94.78]) (authenticated bits=0) by sv07e.atm-tzs.kmjeuro.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g5FN819d019809 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 01:08:02 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from k.joch@kmjeuro.com) Message-ID: <044001c214c1$80244720$0a05a8c0@ooe.kmjeuro.com> From: "Karl M. Joch" To: Subject: config file distribution to remote servers. CVS? Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 01:07:58 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 X-MailScanner: Mail Server protected by CTS Austria www.ctseuro.com Message found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG i searched lot of archives and was reading the man pages of cvs/cvsup. i need a way to central manage the config files and optionally the installed ports/files for about 60 servers (4.4-4.6) which i manage. ~50% of them are somewhere in europe the rest is local here. would like to have at least encrypted authentication, even better would be encrypted transfer. at the moment this stuff runs nightly via authenticated https, but i would like to reduce the traffic and only distribute changed files. the actual running script i made for sure checks some things to not transfer to much at the moment, but there must be a better way. is there anything better then cvs/cvsup or should i go with these ones? till now i am not really sure about the cvs authentication. in one part of the man page authentication is described and in another parts it is mentioned that there is no authentication. i would like to build up a tree like ROOT |- server1 |----- files for it |- server2 |----- files for it |- server3 |----- files for it ....... and want to restrict access to the server1 dir for server1.somewhere.dom with authentication. the problem is, that some of them have dynamicly assingned IP addresses and the only way to get then is with the nightly running script whichs fetches data from the main update server. -- -- Best regards / Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Karl M. Joch http://www.freebsd.at - Power Operating System To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message