On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 12:28:39AM -0700, Sammy Mallare wrote: > can debian do these? if not, which distro can? > - remote and automated installation of > linux OS and apps > (i.e., push from an apps server)
You should have gone to my talk at LinuxWorld Philippines 2005. ;) The answer is yes, Debian can do this, with the help of FAI. It's technically not "push from an apps server", though. It's "pull from an installation client". Fully automated, though. Maybe you want to read this: http://jijo.free.net.ph/21 > - automated deployment of patches > (i.e., push from a patch server) Again, it's "pull from client", but yes, you can do this. For long-running boxes, have a cron job that runs "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade" (but be very very careful about the volatility of the contents of your apt sources). For boxes that you want to stay as-is during their "runtime", but that reboot on a regular-enough basis, create a custom script (in /etc/rcS.d, for example) with the same commands as above. This is great for stuff like point of sale terminals that boot up in the morning and shut down at night. --> Jijo -- Federico Sevilla III : jijo.free.net.ph : When we speak of free software GNU/Linux Specialist : GnuPG 0x93B746BE : we refer to freedom, not price. _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List [email protected] (#PLUG @ irc.free.net.ph) Read the Guidelines: http://linux.org.ph/lists Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
