On Wed, 23 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Then we switched to net-booting over NFS, and it's even easier & > faster. There's no longer any need to configure each machine, beyond > going into the bios and making sure that PXE boot over the network is > enabled. Everything else can be managed on the NFS server, and if a > machine goes bad, we can just move the user over to a new one or > rebuild the old one, but either way it's a trivial matter.
That sounds useful, is Perl involved with the machine setups in any way? Did you follow any particular tutorial for setting this up? Do you only use Debian? > What's Radmind like? I looked at it briefly, but not in depth. What > sorts of things are you doing with it? Just to jump in, I looked at Radmind and it struck me as a combination of Tripwire and rsync. I like cfengine much better because it can do so much more than just file installs (though it does those too). Ted _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm