>>>>> "Keith" == Keith Lofstrom <[email protected]> writes:
Keith> In an environment of five or six homogenous machines, repeated Keith> "download, unpack, make, make install" process is time consuming. Keith> I suppose I should learn to build packages, and it would be a Keith> little easier. You might bite the bullet and look at something like cfengine or puppet. Either of them will help you centralize your administration, allowing you to specify once everything that is common (including fetching those files from a central location), and specify the unique parts of each setup. FLOSS Weekly podcasts (you knew this was coming... :) ... puppet @ http://twit.tv/floss93 cfengine @ http://twit.tv/floss106 -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[email protected]> <URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Smalltalk/Perl/Unix consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See http://methodsandmessages.vox.com/ for Smalltalk and Seaside discussion _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
