Hi, Christopher Brown <c...@asu.edu> writes:
> /opt You are already up to a dime or so but here are my 2c. > I have my environment setup pretty well on one machine NFS export /opt (and /home) from this machine and mount it on the lab nodes. Manage /opt's non-standard user environment with either usepackage or modules [1]. Which ever you like, keep its config file somewhere on /opt so the Lab nodes see it. Avoid putting anything special in /etc/skel as it only applies when a new account is made. Instead, put customization in /etc/profile and /etc/login, but it is best to keep that to a minimum. In particular you would need to add the sourcing of usepackage's/module's setup script. You don't need to mess with making RPM packages, imo. Puppet is indeed a good suggestion for managing things that don't fit into the above (or complementing them). For example, Puppet can distribute the changes to /etc/profile. You will also need to distribute account information. Puppet can distribute /etc/passwd (and friends) or you can setup NIS (or similar). -Brett. [1] http://usepackage.sourceforge.net/ http://modules.sourceforge.net/
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