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#1 Re: Question: Administrating multiple workstations Posted by Steve (82.41.xx.xx) on Mon 21 Mar 2005 at 16:18 It seems like if you're looking at pushing the files yourself to a lot of machines - each of which has identical packages installed on them then there's one obvious approach you could take: Create your own package repository of where all the machines will update from. This would allow you to setup each of the workstations to automatically update themselves without you needing to ssh into them. (Via something like cron-apt or similar). If you wish to push updated configuration files to each host you could also do that by this route - either with a dummy "my-config" package, or by editing the default configuration files installed by the packages. When it comes to actual package installation lists I think you're on your own - there's no single collection of packages which is "best". You choose what you like, and others will invariably choose something different. For more complex configurations you might want to look at cfengine. It's incredibly powerful, but complex to setup...Steve -- Steve.org.uk
It seems like if you're looking at pushing the files yourself to a lot of machines - each of which has identical packages installed on them then there's one obvious approach you could take:
Create your own package repository of where all the machines will update from.
This would allow you to setup each of the workstations to automatically update themselves without you needing to ssh into them.
(Via something like cron-apt or similar).
If you wish to push updated configuration files to each host you could also do that by this route - either with a dummy "my-config" package, or by editing the default configuration files installed by the packages.
When it comes to actual package installation lists I think you're on your own - there's no single collection of packages which is "best". You choose what you like, and others will invariably choose something different.
For more complex configurations you might want to look at cfengine. It's incredibly powerful, but complex to setup...
Steve -- Steve.org.uk
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