El 16/11/2005, a las 01:02 PM, Patrice Neff escribió:
Hi,
I would like to configure the hosts in a Skolelinux network
according to our standards. Things I'm thinking about currently:
- sources.list file changes (use Internet or apt-proxy host in
the network)
- Installation of Gnome instead of KDE (probably, not decided yet
- but we use Gnome in the current network)
- Probably a few customizations of Gnome (or KDE) such as the
application menu and putting Firefox as the default browser instead
of Konqueror
My clients are not thin-clients but workstations.
First: is there any way built into Skolelinux to do that kind of
configuration automatically at the moment? If yes, can you point me
to the documentation - I did not find it.
As there have not been any replies indicating otherwise, I'm assume
there is not currently anything built into Skolelinux.
If not, I have a few ideas how one could go about this:
Shortly after my post I finally stumbled over cfengine (Ralf also
mentioned it in his reply mail). cfengine is already installed and
used for the configuration. So my suggestion: include a default
cfservd.conf and update.conf on the clients and enable cfservd by
default. This would then enable the server to push config files to
the clients and could thereby also be used to configure newly
installed clients.
What are your thoughts about this idea? If somebody likes it and
would put a patch into Skolelinux, I'd happily experiment with this
and provide a patch.
Regards,
Patrice
