On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:12 PM, la Bigmac <la_big...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list, > > > > Seems to be a few people recently wanting to discuss Gentoo as a server :-) > so thought I would pose a question that has been bugging me. > > > > What would you guys recommend to manage multiple servers and the package > versions? > > > > While I have a central emerge server (*rsync)* and sync all of my servers > to it I still manually update the packages. > > > > Example, openssh how should I be updating openssh on all of my servers > other than logging onto each one in turn and running emerge openssh. > > > > Should I cron schedule an *emerge* --*update world *and control the > repository of packages or is there a more elegant solution? > > > > Regards, > > > > Mat. > You can always use clusterssh to send the same command to all of them. When I was managing multiple servers, I would have a cron job set to eix-sync daily (the maximum frequency Gentoo recommends syncing), then once a week I would have emerge -DNpvu world e-mailed from cron. I would then review the e-mail and see if I wanted to upgrade. If I didn't, I'd mask the package version and move on.
