Re: centos] system management - what do you use to manage your CentOS systems?

[herrold at owlriver.com (R P Herrold)]

On Sat, 2 Apr 2005, Lee W wrote:

> Back to the point has anyone found / thought of implementing 
> a kind of Enterprise level YUM with the same sort of 
> manageability of RHN.  I looked at it myself but felt it 
> would involve too much of a rewrite to the YUM clients to 
> do.

I published the necessary hooks to do so two years on the yum 
mailing list, and sell services based on this already.  I know 
of another list member who does this as well.

The include functionality for remote yum.conf entries was a 
result of some needs I had in this area, which seth kindly 
added; I also use variants of that code at the 
anaconda/kickstart install time for new host sccessionsing, 
and rule based (database driven) config customization

> Does YUM even support any kind of authentication HTTP or FTP?

yes

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