Nelson Minar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: What's the right solution? Assume disk is cheap, bandwidth is fairly
: cheap, but sysadmin time is really expensive. If Debian could provide
: some solution, it would be a big help to Linux administrators.
The solution running here is:
1) /, /etc, /var
On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Nelson Minar wrote:
I've been a user of RedHat for the last year and a half. RedHat in
general is a nice distribution, but the only reason I really use it is
for RPM, the package manager. One thing that RPM cannot really help
with is managing a whole network of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nelson Minar) writes:
One solution would be to automate the package updates
This is pretty easy to do with dpkg. The two important commands are
dpkg --get-selections [pattern ...] get list of selections to stdout
dpkg --set-selections set package
Problems: some packages need hand editing of some config files in
/etc. This could be handled by cfengine, which can be run by the same
cron job after dftp. Another problem is that I *think* dftp can only
do ftp. This is a nuisance when your upgrade center doesn't have
anonymous ftp. If this
Nelson Minar ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
: run the package upgrade command on every machine.
:
: One solution would be to automate the package updates, run a cron job
: on all machines that keep them in sync with some master list of
: package versions. This isn't very efficient, but would be
There's no solution at the moment :-( :-( :-(
I have the same problem. The situation is even worse when the machines
are slightly different, and have a few different packages :-(
I have a suggestion, that I've not yet tried but I'll do soon. dftp
can make a list of packages that need upgrading.
I've been a user of RedHat for the last year and a half. RedHat in
general is a nice distribution, but the only reason I really use it is
for RPM, the package manager. One thing that RPM cannot really help
with is managing a whole network of workstations. Say I have ten Linux
machines with a
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