On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Hedemark, Magnus wrote: > I was thinking about this and wonder if it might be best to have something > like /etc/xinetd.d/* where you have a number of services defined, each in > their own file, and by default most of them are disabled. That way if a > sysadmin wants a machine to become a CAD workstation, he changes the "false" > to "true" in a file like /etc/yum.d/cadgroup.conf > > Trying to think in terms of large scale deployments, and allowing dept. > sysadmins to add new configurations without having to touch the central > MIS-owned configuration in environments where you have centralized > deployment with some local department level support. What I have done is put a comps.xml (yumgroups.xml) in the machine specific repo. That way I get a machine built the way I want. I would think this would not necessarily have to be based on machine names but could easily be modified to be based off of some variable that you define on a machine. -- ......Tom Registered Linux User #14522 http://counter.li.org tdiehl@xxxxxxxxxxxx My current SpamTrap -------> mtd123@xxxxxxxxxxxx