> Rob Brown, who posted here earlier has put together a good=20 > article about > scalable system development. I think we've done a good job of > implementing a pretty scalable system based on Red Hat Linux,=20 > kickstart, > pxe and yum at duke, particularly in the physics department.=20 I'd be interested in seeing that article. I'd also be interested in = learning how to dovetail pxe into our environment. > The generalized case is easy though, you must get a point where you > create a certain economy of scale for the systems you're maintaining. There's been some discussion on the Infrastructures mailing list about = being able to reliably recreate a system using a properly created = infrastructure. Certain points such as order dependency were brought = up. That is, 2 systems might have different (x)inetd setups, at least = as far as MD5 on the config file(s) is concerned. However, they may be = functionally identical. jc > > BTW, is there anyplace one can find a cfengine RPM? >=20 > is cfengine still being maintained? >=20 > -sv >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20
