[Gllug] Production system - Linux 2.4.24, LVM and cciss

[Rickey Costas]

Martin A. Brooks wrote:


> 
> It's just one of those things.  These systems were all here before I was
> and, as they're production machines, it's not practical or appropriate
> to change them.  Not broken, don't fix.

Surely the work to maintain them is enough justification to standardise 
? You have to fix security issues as soon as they come out dont you ? Or 
spend time installing funky configuration management programs.....


> With sensible package management, no.  I'm actually quite lucky here in
> that I've set up cfengine, it does 90% of the work for us.

cfengine looks prety funky, but also like one of those things thats a 
solution looking for a real problem ! I've never used it so I could be 
way off.  Maybe I should have a better look at it in all the spare time 
I've got caused by all my machines being the same :-)

Rickey.


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