> It depends on what you need to do. If you really have enough machines > or long-running jobs that a shell loop through them isn't practical, you > might want something higher-level like cfengine or puppet, or at least > something running under cron to make them independent. cfengine or puppet (or something else - slackmaster?) are where I want to be eventually - but in the immediate term something like this would help a lot. e.g bouncing my 4 front-end apache servers on 4 different boxes. That sort of thing. I was actually going to start another "configuration management redux" thread as a follow up to a thread I started a few months ago. -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos