On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 19:20, Tim wrote:
On Wed, 2006-07-12 at 16:05 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> If you can ssh to a box as root you can do anything remotely that you
> could do locally short of a complete new install. Normal maintenance
> just requires a 'yum update' anyway.
I doubt you'd want manually to do that with a few hundred boxes within
an organisation. I recall that there is a package for administering
systems, recommended for those who want to change the defaults
post-installation, but I cannot remember its name.
I do it with dozens and it doesn't take enough time that hundreds
would be a problem - but the remote ones are running Centos
where I've never had an update kill the machine. I'm not so
sure I'd 'ssh yum -y update' a remote fedora box without
testing an exact duplicate first.
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Les Mikesell
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