On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Greg Kettmann wrote:
> 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.
I looked into that. It's great for setting up new installs to all be
the same (Mandrake has a similar doo-hickey). There are 2 problems,
though: 1) you need to boot to floopy to use it (I suppose this could
be modified to a network boot, but it still requires a reboot...) and 2)
it mirrors the entire drive... much like several other utilities I ran
into. We need something where we can say... install a new version of
program X compiled from source across the LAN without having to manually
log in to each system let alone go to each one and reboot...
I think I'll end up writing a bash script wrapper for remote_update.pl
from freshmeat. It's fairly easy, but the configs are a bit complex to
re-write each time something is updated.
Brian
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