[Gllug] Stupid shell question

[Dylan]

On Wednesday 19 June 2002 16:06, Anthony Chapman wrote:
> John Hearns wrote
>
> > What I was thinking of is that we are deploying some new machines.
> > There is a default set of software (RPMs) installed.
> > We were just discussing at a meeting what if there was software missing
> > which people normally use, and expect to be there on the new machines
>
> If you have old machines that definitely have all the software needed then
> you could make a file containing a listing of every directory on PATH (or
> every file with the executable bit). From there you could see whats missing
> from the new machines. If there are enough programs missing that thinking
> about whether they're needed doesn't seem worth it then you could make a
> new directory, add it to the end of the path, and fill it with files whose
> names are generated from that list, which return an error and write their
> name to a log file (or even ask the user if they should be installed before
> writing to the log).

Wouldn't it be feasable to write a small server to trap or monitor shell 
errors?

Dylan


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