Red Hat supports "Kick Start" files. With this method you basically answer
all the questions up front, in the kickstart (.ks) file. It's fairly simple
to script in some RPM's as well if you'd like. I would think that this
might work well for you.
Brian Chabot wrote:
> I recently recieved an odd request...
>
> I need to find a way to mass-upgrade about 30 machines on a LAN that all
> run RedHat 7.0 or 7.1, but may have different hardware.
>
> I know this can be scripted through rsh/ssh and up2date with a root/sudo
> login... but... my client also needs to be able to update programs
> installed from source this way. And it needs to be as automated as
> possible.
>
> I found SystemImage on SourceForge, but that a) requires almost
> identical hardware, and b) makes all the systems mirror images of
> eachother from what I've seen of the docs. The problem is that the
> users keep personal files on their workstations. (Work-related files
> (Home directories) are on a NFS mounted filer.)
>
> Does anyone here know of any software that will allow selected updates
> or should I start scripting my own system to mirror the important
> directory trees?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian
>
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