Rolf-Werner Eilert escribió: > Noel schrieb: >> Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: >>> [...] >>> This is really a very good idea, but I see one more problem. From time >>> to time you will want to update software on the server. If you update >>> the software, some apps might write their data in another, new way and >>> users logging in to the other server after having worked with the >>> updated one might not be able to access their data anymore. Or even >>> worse, a new way of writing an .rc file might be corrupted if you start >>> the older version. >>> >>> How do you keep the two servers really up-to-date with EVERYTHING like >>> new apps and stuff? >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Thanks for your comments. >>> >>> Rolf >> Well, Chris Fanning has already given a good solution via Xen, but we >> used two different methods. At first times, we used to have two cheap >> servers with identical installations. Everytime we made an update on one >> server we did it in the other one too. It's very easy, but it isn't fast >> nor error-free. >> >> Actual solution in our case at EjerciciosResueltos use Subversion. >> Everything but the homes are under version control. Of course, that does >> NOT mean that every file is under version control, since files in, say, >> /usr/bin are controlled by the distro's package control system, and >> files in, say, /var/log must be machine-specific to allow us to get >> usage info, problems detectionand such. But it IS important to use svn >> to keep control of the installed packages. We used a nightly cron task >> to update the machine from the repository, and to update every >> configuration from SVN. >> > > > Yes, a nightly script was what I thought of first. > > Thanks for the advice with svn. I'll try to find out more about it. > Maybe we try it this way, though the Xen solution Chris Fanning proposed > has its own special charme :-) > > Regards > > Rolf >
Some time ago I found an article about using svk to manage /etc like this. It doesn't put .svn directories around like svn does. Cheers, Alex ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
