In edition to yum which seth already mentioned there is yup and current. Yup is the Yellow dog UPdater which yum is based off of. Current is a project to implement a open source up2date server which uses Red Hat Linux's up2date client. I'm not sure what the official site for yup is, but if you want to look at the source I have included a link to the src rpm. http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/ http://www.biology.duke.edu/computer/unix/current/ ftp://kickstart.linux.ncsu.edu/pub/realmkit/realmkit-7.3/SRPMS/RealmKit/yup-0.7.2.1-1ncsu.src.rpm Elliot On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 13:17, Erik Williamson wrote: > 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 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Kickstart-list mailing list > Kickstart-list@xxxxxxxxxx > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/kickstart-list -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Elliot Peele | Linux Systems Administrator | | Student in Computer Science | College of PAMS | | NC State University | Physics Deparment | | elliot@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | ebpeele2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx | ------------------------------------------------------------------- GPG Fingerprint: 00F5 0BEE 168B C07E C49E AEC8 992A A820 05C5 4D73
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