You can use the SuSE supplied YOU (YaST Online Update) or fou4s (fast online update for suse). -----Original Message----- From: Peter Niessen [mailto:niessen@ifh.de] Sent: Sunday, June 20, 2004 11:23 PM To: suse-autoinstall@suse.com Subject: [suse-autoinstall] Managing autoyast installed systems Dear autoinstall-list, faced with the threat of a new cluster here, I familiarised myself with autoyast. All runs find and the machine installs without intervention. But how can one update/add packages on the clients? Should I setup passwordless ssh access and the run for CLIENT in box1 box2 ... boxn ; do ssh $CLIENT "rpm -I the_user_wants_this_yesterday.rpm" done Or should I update my autoyast generated configuration and reboot and re-install everytime something changes? Sounds pretty uncool. Cheers, Peter. Peter Nie[df]en (Peter Niessen for special character challenged displays) Bartol Research Institute University of Delaware Newark, DE 19716-4793 U.S. of America Tel (+1)302/831-8700 Fax (+1)302/831-1843 e-mail niessen@ifh.de www http://www.ifh.de/~niessen /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign \ / --------------------- X against HTML mail / \ and postings pgp public key at http://www.ifh.de/www_users/amanda/niessen/www/pgp_pubkey.asc -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands, e-mail: suse-autoinstall-help@suse.com