Hi All, I realize that this may be slightly off topic for this forum, but I figure that those who are interested in mass-deployment methods are also interested in ways to keep all their systems up to date, as well as having methods to push out new packages, etc. If you know of a better place to post, I'm all ears! I'm about to begin a 7.3 roll-out here, to over 100 machines which serve as anything from print servers, to graphics workstations. In the past I've used autoupdate on a server (http://www.mat.univie.ac.at/~gerald/ftp/autoupdate/) coupled with a rather large script which would copy over various config files, other tarballs, etc. to the client machines. I'm in the process of dreaming up a slightly different approach now - but... I'm wondering what the rest of you do - If there's one magical solution for this! I'm really interested to know what the rest of you have come up with. Maybe with a bit of collaboration we can come up with something. Cheers & Thanks, Erik. PS - I've found an interesting article here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2001/12/20/sysadmin.html and am eagerly waiting for the follow-ups. -- e r i k w i l l i a m s o n erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx system admin . department of computer science . university of calgary
