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
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
instead of the for loop, check out pdsh. you can use it to run commands such as: pdsh -w box[1-n] 'wget http://path/to/rpm; rpm -I file.rpm'
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote: Hi Rajiv, thanks for sending this.
instead of the for loop, check out pdsh. you can use it to run commands such as:
pdsh -w box[1-n] 'wget http://path/to/rpm; rpm -I file.rpm'
This method of administration I'd like actually to avoid because I would have to keep track what I did myself. The ideal solution was if autoyast would offer something like ,,update'', so I can modify the control file and then just apply the changes. Some kind of ,,RemoteYaST''. Cheers, Peter.
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Well, what you're REALLY looking for is "Red Carpet", or similar products, which provide patch management for Linux workstations in general. Red Carpet, at least, is not free though. http://www.novell.com/products/redcarpetenterprise/ Originally made by Ximian, now owned be Novell (who also own SuSE, btw). On 21 Jun 2004 at 19:42, Peter Niessen wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jun 2004, Rajiv Aaron Manglani wrote:
Hi Rajiv,
thanks for sending this.
instead of the for loop, check out pdsh. you can use it to run commands such as:
pdsh -w box[1-n] 'wget http://path/to/rpm; rpm -I file.rpm'
This method of administration I'd like actually to avoid because I would have to keep track what I did myself. The ideal solution was if autoyast would offer something like ,,update'', so I can modify the control file and then just apply the changes. Some kind of ,,RemoteYaST''.
Cheers, Peter.
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Op maandag 21 juni 2004 20:19, schreef David Corlette:
Well, what you're REALLY looking for is "Red Carpet", or similar products, which provide patch management for Linux workstations in general. Red Carpet, at least, is not free though.
I believe an application that comes close to red-carpet is the Advanced Package Tool (apt). See http://linux01.gwdg.de/apt4rpm -- Richard Bos Without a home the journey is endless
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