On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 09:03, Douglas Kojetin wrote: > Hi All- > > I have a few very similar systems (almost exactly the same in hardware > specs, and the same RedHat 9 packages installed) with which I would > like to utilize some sort of update protocol (I use 'yum') so I would > not have to download packages more than once (i.e. download package to > one system, and use them or transfer to the others systems). > > Could anyone offer any links and/or instructions to help me set > something up ... or point me in a certain direction? > > Many thanks, > Doug
You could run a Current server but that is a bit much for just a few servers... I run a box with rsync pointing at a local mirror (for RedHat Updates), then I manually load that "Update" directory via NFS to my other servers and run: cd /mnt/rh9/Updates rpm -F *.rpm After a minute or two all my rpms are up-to-date on the server, and I unmount the drive and drop nfs. All this could easily be done in a cron job: # assuming I've already opened a path through # both firewalls to allow NFS traffic between # the two servers: # /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap start mount foo.bar.com:/home/RedHat/rh9 /mnt/rh9 date echo "Running RH9 updates on server: Foo" cd /mnt/rh9/Updates rpm -Fv *.rpm sleep 10 cd / umount /mnt/rh9 /etc/rc.d/init.d/portmap stop If I put that script in the root's cron table on a server that would update my server each time it was run and send a status message to the root user of the server. If you need help setting up nfs please see: http://www.trilug.org/~jonc/nfs/nfs_nis_automount.txt I hope that is helpful - Jon Carnes -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
