Sorry if this gets sent twice but my first mailing din't seem to work... Have you at least looked into alice? I believe it is written by SuSE. I know it is written to help people with exactly this problem. It not only helps with the "distribution", but also helps with tracking version, multiple workstation types etc.. IMHO you need to (at least) take a hard look at it. Jerry On Tue, 2004-03-16 at 17:18, Chris Purcell wrote:
We're in the process of deploying about 200 SuSE workstations out to our remote offices scattered across the US. I need a way that I can easily make changes to the workstations all at once. I've been thinking of a hack that I would write (in Perl) that would go something like this...
1) each workstation would execute a cron job daily that would download a script from our central server each day 2) that script would be executed by another cron job a few minutes later. This script will contain any changes that I need to make. If there aren't any updates for the day, then the script will be blank that day.
Will this work? There has to be something better than this out there. What do you guys do in this situation? For example, we've deployed about 25 workstations out so far, but now I need to change this Perl script on each one of the machines. What is the easiest way to push this script out besides SCP'ing it to each one individually.
Thanks, Chris