On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 16:59:50 -0400 Hunter McMillen <[email protected]> wrote:
> I just got shoved into being a lab administrator for a lab that is set > up with openAFS. And under our current set up anytime someone requests > new software be installed, I have to log into each and every client > machine to download and install the required packages, but there has > to be an easier way. What OS are the client machines? There are many ways to automate software installation, and most don't even involve AFS, but things can change a lot depending on if you're talking about Windows or not. > After reading through some of the documentation I can't seem to find > what I am looking for, but here is what I would like. A volume on a > server machine that I can download packages into then have read-only > copies of that volume on each of the client machines. Then a script > can install all of the packages for me. If you want to go through AFS, just put it in a volume on an AFS fileserver, and have the clients access the package from AFS. There's no need to distribute read-only copies of the volume if all of the clients are close to the fileserver. Or you can install the software into a volume in AFS, and have clients run it from AFS. But that can get quite complex, depending on what you want to do. -- Andrew Deason [email protected] _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
