Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2001 17:27:08 +0100 From: Gabriel Ambuehl <gabriel_ambuehl@buz.ch> To: Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re[2]: "Cluster" administration software... Message-ID: <50184864380.20011230172708@buz.ch> In-Reply-To: <3C2F3EAD.6090809@potentialtech.com> References: <94174320199.20011230143124@buz.ch> <3C2F3EAD.6090809@potentialtech.com>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hello Bill, 30 Dec 2001, 17:19:57, you wrote: >> I'm looking for tools to facilitate the administration of a >> FreeBSD server farm, mainly tools to push package updates over the >> whole farm but other things like globals configuration file >> updates would be nice > NIS might be what you're looking for. It will push > user/group/hosts/ services files to clients. Last time I looked into NIS it was for stuff like keeping /etc/passwd etc in sync, but not updating packages on hosts. Basically, I want to have some sort of daemon, to which I can send a package (as the ones used by pkg_add) which will then install it for me, taking care of dependencies etc pp or prior versions of the package that are eventually already installed. > You could mount your ports tree via NFS, which would allow you to > keep all machines up to date while only needing to update one > machine. Well, mounting the ports tree via NFS and using portupgrade provides some flexibility, but still, you'd need to execute it manually on all machines since I don't trust portupgrade enough to run it unattendend as it still f*cks up its own dependency database if you use stuff like WITHOUT_X11 for libungif and then stops working until you fix it by hand. Ideally, FreeBSD should have something like Debian's apt-get upgrade which upgrades the whole system automatically (downloading packages from some custom package repository, preferably). I've got some friends who run Debian at home and they told me that apt-get never did any bad to their system... I've been thinking about implementing some SOAP based small server, that takes the package and calls portupgrade on it... > Webmin provides a nice front-end to a lot of this. I don't think > you're going to find *1* tool to take care of this for you, but NIS > in concert with webmin might do the trick. Hmm. I just installed webmin (haven't used it for a long time) and the Cluster User administration for sure looks cool but I don't really need to keep passwd in sync (actually, this would probably be counter productive from a security point of view with our system). Best regards, Gabriel -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 6.5i iQEVAwUBPC8yUMZa2WpymlDxAQGAMQf6A/dC7s/xIvvYVZrWpcAFxxhzXnRfXjF9 uWoEB+2mEd3khpMHUxPMADTY2hxeaA7BtEKStG2zSSvcxzkt+hbukKn+XF/e4qz1 NJSBGvOXaOG+sDWqh3SAYBI9mLX2DoE2rIqWcbOL+KBUVIEuJbkop1POdhC6pbdX LXbWzVOUcHmt0bGQVcs5Yn0SRP3/mfyrJ5jr4V+GwyDsrlhBcte+wiD8aN0hs4cD vbuIioAHb+esj6mDJUW1ejjyeq7zgMLLZ0RMosTtjRMqQlVhTsG0oa888Fi4DShb vj9i7XI8Rtu8uVOWMWb4Ku97Rp64SovAc7erLbj/W82ULwl9o2pn/A== =55x4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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