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Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2007 16:57:30 -0600
From: Paul Schmehl <pauls@utdallas.edu>
To: Howard Jones <howie@thingy.com>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
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Subject: Re: Management techiniques for multiple FreeBSD servers?
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--On Tuesday, January 09, 2007 16:30:59 +0000 Howard Jones=20
<howie@thingy.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>
Check out Richard Bejtlich's blog - Taosecurity
<http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/index.html>

Here's some topics that might be of particular interest to you:
<http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/01/more-freebsd-package-issues.html>
<http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/01/recovering-from-bad-freebsd-package=
.html>
<http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/11/gvinum-on-freebsd.html>

Paul Schmehl (pauls@utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/

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