Re: updating lots of servers

From: Tim Priebe (tim_at_uunet.com.na)
Date: 06/29/04

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    To: "'Gustavo A. Baratto'" <gbaratto@superb.net>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 10:35:34 +0200

    Check /usr/ports/security/freebsd-update/

    -----Original Message-----
    From: Gustavo A. Baratto [mailto:gbaratto@superb.net]
    Sent: Monday, June 28, 2004 10:20 PM
    To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org
    Subject: [nam-backbone] Re: updating lots of servers

    hello guys...

    Thanks for all your suggestions...
    After much thinking and google search, I came up with rsyicing (over ssh)
    /usr/src and /usr/obj, and then make installworld (and kernel) as we would
    normally do.

    Very fast and secure

    Thanks
    ----- Original Message -----
    From: "Emre Bastuz" <info@emre.de>
    To: <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
    Cc: <gbaratto@superb.net>
    Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 4:53 PM
    Subject: Re: updating lots of servers

    > Hi,
    >
    > Zitat von "Gustavo A. Baratto" <gbaratto@superb.net>:
    > > Is there any other simple way to track many freebsd boxes other than the
    one
    > > in the handbook?
    > quite some time ago I read this article from the guys att xs4all.nl who
    describe
    > how they do keep their farm up to date with a combined PXE/Rsync/TFTP/etc.
    > environment:
    >
    > http://www.pix.net/software/pxeboot/archive/SANE.pdf
    > http://www.xs4all.nl/~scorpio/sane2002/
    >
    > Hope this helps.
    >
    > Cheers,
    >
    > Emre
    >
    > --
    > http://www.emre.de UIN: 561260
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    >

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