On Fri, 2005-01-21 at 10:23 +0000, Kevin Philp wrote: > I guess the ultimate would be setting up your computers as 30 terminal > servers > without hardrives (www.ltsp.org). > > What I do on my network is have each machine setup with enough stuff to get > it > running and talking to the network and then bring in the /opt, /usr/local and > /home stuff via NFS. You don't need /usr/portage for booting so why not > import that as well? Its a lot easier than dowloading via ftp.
Better yet use AFS (www.openafs.org), network file system thats cached on the local hard drive, perfect for updating all workstations in one go. > > Secondly use NIS for central administration of users and groups. Kerberos, LDAP would be better. > > > >Also, are there any tools for mass remote administration? SSH is nice > >and all, but it would be awesome if one could tell 30 machines to > >shutdown -h now simultaneously. > > Run a cron job on the workstations to run a script stored on the server if it exists would be simple but effective. -- [email protected] mailing list
