somebody said: >>>systems every day. I've been doing it on about 10 systems for about 2 >>>years, and haven't had a lot of trouble; indeed once my mail servers >>> went >>>down for a few hours for that reason, but my mail servers are always >>> looking >>>for an excuse to go down. Use ssh-agent, and ssh2 public keys for passwordless login on your machines. I use this method to update my servers every day in about 3 minutes. http://cfm.gs.washington.edu/security/ssh/client-pkauth/
Just run monit or netsaint to monitor your machines, and you nullmailer to mail you when a system is down. Monit can even restart the service if it's puking. monit is a debian package, you can download sample monit debian config from here: http:// www.cs.montana.edu/support/monit.debian.v1.tar.bz2 (note the space in address.) I changed it from a monolithic config to a seperate config file for each service so it's trivial to add services in for each system. You juste need to include your service in monitrc and then edit global_defines and stick it all in /etc/monit and you are good to go. -- --Luke CS Sysadmin, Montana State University-Bozeman -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]