[Gllug] managing a large number of debian boxes

Martin A. Brooks martin at clues.ltd.uk
Mon Jun 7 19:59:34 UTC 2004


Hi Bruce,

On Monday, June 7, 2004, Bruce Richardson wrote:

> cfengine is an interesting tool but it doesn't provide an immediate
> answer to the OP's question.  cfengine doesn't have any specific
> package management tools

It can be used to drive Debian's own. It's trivial, for example, to
tell an abitrary group of machines to install/uninstall/reinstall a
single or group of packages.

The advantage of cfengine is that it's distro, indeed OS, neutral.

Regards

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