On 2012 Dec 23, at 14:22 , Yves Dorfsman wrote: > > I might be in a situation where I need to install and configure software on > Linux servers without having root access (I'd have my own filesystems, and a > "power user" which owns those filesystems). Yet I need this task to be easily > repeatable (read: as automated as possible). > > Is it worth trying to do this with puppet? > > Are there tools specialised for this kind of tasks (software install, config, > change of config files)?
Just because you don't have root doesn't mean you can't use package management tools like rpm. You just have to point to a non-root owned copy of the rpmdb. Also, shar files can be made rather repeatable if you wish, having the advantage of being, by definition, completely configurable in what they do in post-install configuration. The main downside of a shar file is you'd have to write your own validation utility to confirm the package is properly installed, but you'd have to do that with many other options I can think of. ---- "The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue." Edward R Murrow (1964) Mark McCullough [email protected] _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
