Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Ben wrote: > > > I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate > > > managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would > > > recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master, and the > > > others sync off of that. Perhaps that is the only reliable approach, but > > > > I'll answer that with, why would someone in your position not want to > > do that? > > I am not sure to which you direction you are referring. Why would
i. Thousands of machines updating from repositories. ii. Thousands of machines updating from one/some local mirror(s). > On a server farm of identical machines using system images works > pretty well. Tools like SystemImager, FAI, Mondo, etc. are great. Where did system imaging come into this? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*) http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - - http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html Please, don't Cc: me. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]