Re: 'pushing' an application installation

2002-01-31 Thread Bret Hughes
On Wed, 2002-01-30 at 13:59, Anthony E. Greene wrote: > You'll have to write a script to either mount the share (NFS, Samba) or > download the files (FTP). An FTP script is simply a file containing all the > commands that you'd use with the commandline FTP client, ie; > > open myserver.mydoma

Re: 'pushing' an application installation

2002-01-30 Thread Jack Wallen
tony, thanks so much for the help. i'm having two small problems. the first is that it only works if i give the explicit name of the upgrade, i.e - rpm -Fvh http://10.16.58.190/rpmupdates/app_to_update-1.0.1.rpm and second - even if i successfully get it to update (by listing the exact file na

Re: 'pushing' an application installation

2002-01-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 30 Jan 2002, Jack Wallen wrote: >thanks so much for the help. i'm having two small problems. the first is >that it only works if i give the explicit name of the upgrade, i.e - [snip] Oops! I'm used to using rpm locally. I had forgotten that HTTP requires a specific target resource. You'll pr

Re: 'pushing' an application installation

2002-01-30 Thread Anthony E. Greene
On 29 Jan 2002, Jack Wallen wrote: >is it possible to install an application, with rpm, on a Red Hat machine >remotely from a centralized location? what i mean is this: > >i have a centralized application repository. i am a sys admin and i need >to install a certain app onto numerous machines. i w

'pushing' an application installation

2002-01-30 Thread Jack Wallen
is it possible to install an application, with rpm, on a Red Hat machine remotely from a centralized location? what i mean is this: i have a centralized application repository. i am a sys admin and i need to install a certain app onto numerous machines. i want to do this automatically so i don't