On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 17:28 -0400, Jeff McCune wrote: > As manual processes are automated, the notion of "automated site > configuration" will eventually be born, but only for that SA at that > site.
>From a vendor's perspective, that's something that never ceases to amaze me: that there is a whole cottage industry of people who write tools to configure their site, but so little in the way of accepted and widespread tools. Contrast that with package management: solutions to that problem have been so successful and pervasive that people use them for problems that have nothing to do with distributing prebuilt binaries. Where are the tools to help sysadmins create a certain config ? Where are the tools that help sharing knowledge about that and make such configs reproducible ? > It's impossible to try and give someone a tool to configure their > entire site. Nonetheless, it strikes me as a very worthwhile goal; especially if that tool helps SA's break out of the isolation in which they need to reinvent solutions by themselves. David _______________________________________________ lssconf-discuss mailing list lssconf-discuss@inf.ed.ac.uk http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/lssconf-discuss
