From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 15:28:16 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95FAB16A61D for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 15:28:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Florian.Meister@medienhaus.at) Received: from mhmxu01.tele.net (mhmxu01.tele.net [194.208.21.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8531243DAC for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 15:27:45 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from Florian.Meister@medienhaus.at) Received: from mhex003.medienhaus.at (194-208-019-042.tele.net [194.208.19.42] (may be forged)) by mhmxu01.tele.net (8.13.4/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k49FReP7090222 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 17:27:41 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from Florian.Meister@medienhaus.at) Received: from [194.208.22.96] ([194.208.22.96]) by mhex003.medienhaus.at with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Tue, 9 May 2006 17:27:46 +0200 Message-ID: <4460B4EC.9080808@medienhaus.at> Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 17:27:40 +0200 From: Florian Meister User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (X11/20060428) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD Questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 09 May 2006 15:27:46.0454 (UTC) FILETIME=[1F940B60:01C6737D] X-Virus-enabled: 1 X-Spam-enabled: 1 X-Spam-discard: 0 X-Virus-discard: 1 X-Special-Recipient: @@default@@ X-Recipients: X-Loop-Detect: 1 X-Virus-Flag: NO X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV / www.clamav.net X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.799 required=5 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50 X-Scanning-Time: 3 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 194.208.21.50 Subject: something like devil-linux with freebsd possible ? 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 May 2006 15:28:16 -0000 hi, Because the time I use to manage our freebsd-servers grows and grows I searched the net for something like devil-linux in bsd. DevilLinux (http://www.devil-linux.org) is a nice project which makes it easy to manage a large amount of servers. Every server boots from a devil-linux-cd (or usb-stick, or something) and stores its config somewhere else. If you have to update your systems, burn the cds and change it. If something fails, put the original-cd in, and no problem. If someone has access to your server no binaries can be changed. The config is stored on the usb-stick. It will be loaded into a ramdisk and then the stick is unmounted. So you have the same config after reboot, no matter what you change. (You can do a write-config if you want to save it). I think it's a very nice project, but I am searching for the same in *BSD. Is there such a project around ? thanks, florian -- florian meister EMAIL: florian.meister@medienhaus.at TELEPHONE: +43 5572 501 134 FAX: +43 5572 501 97134 ADDRESS: gutenbergstrasse 1 6858 schwarzach vorarlberg austria WWW: www.medienhaus.at o If practice makes perfect, and nobody's perfect, why practice? o The solution of this problem is trival and is left as an exercise for the reader. o Recursive,adj.; see recursive. _______________________________________________________________________________