Maintaining Linux Desktop (RH WS 3.0)

bansilal10000 bansilal10000 at gawab.com
Tue Jul 20 20:03:10 UTC 2004


well maintaining means updating its good to update using apt or rhn
but another good solution is yum update
#yum update 
ok
or
maintain after updating one workstation checks its hdr and rpm files
copy it and place some where as repository no need of every time
updating all machines.
there is software for repositoty called as yam database 
check yam.conf and yum.conf
ok
On Tue, 2004-07-20 at 16:24, Stuart Sears wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 July 2004 11:22, rm -rf Slash wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I am working in a big company with more than 600 Linux
> > workstations and I am searching right now for a
> > program or a way to maintain the workstations and
> > update them (rpms, files...) when I want.
> >
> > Is there anyway to do all that? I only found apt.
> sounds like a job for Red Hat Network - although with that many hosts you 
> would be best using at the very least an RHN Proxy server.
> with this set up properly you would need an external RHN account for each of 
> your machines (do you have this already?) and could use up2date to keep each 
> system 'patched'.
> if you want to provide your hosts with specific files as well, there are a 
> number of ways to do this:
> cfengine is one
> cvs and custom scripts another
> the RHN provisioning module is a third
> an RHN Proxy server with a custom channel set up, with the relevant files 
> built as noarch rpms is a fourth.
> (an exercise for the reader, methinks...)
> 
> Stuart
> --
> Stuart Sears RHCE, RHCX
> 





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