> > > > 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! > > Check out apt-get. A good intro is here: http://freshrpms.net/apt/. It's a RPM port of the nice Debian update utility, and is very easy to set up both client and server. Carey