On 12/10/06, Tracy R Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
There is no need for commercial software to manage a bunch of Unix machines. Check out http://cfengine.org
Ah... This is what I was hoping would come out of this thread. I'm not in a position to dictate or influence what software we use, but I'm going to check out cfengine anyway, for personal edification. It sounds pretty slick. The way you make it sound, you can basically create a profile for what a computer should look like when it's in a certain role. Then you just add machines to a role and cfengine makes them look like they're supposed to. And looking at the website, that's exactly what it does, including support for overlapping roles or "classes". -todd -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
