[Klug-general] Keeping Files in sync but local

[James Chapman]

Use CFEngine

http://www.cfengine.org/pages/what_is_cfengine



Or Puppet

http://www.howtoforge.com/installing_puppet_on_ubuntu
http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/526









At Thursday, 03/02/2011 on 19:39 Peter Childs wrote:
> I'm looking for a method, to do the following?
> 
> 1. Mainly for keeping config files in sync between multiple boxes but may
> also be other data files. ie the password files.
> 2. File must be local so it can be accessed even before the network is
> working or while part of the network is broken, or while a use is away from
> the network.
> 3. Files must be synced as soon as possible, or when we get back to the
> office.
> 4. There is no master so you can't just copy the master once its been
> updated. (so I can't just scp or rsync them in crontab)
> 5. Tell any programs reading the files that they have been updated, (Like
> Logrotate does)
> 
> I'm sure there should be a simple way of doing this, but I'm not even sure
> of the right words to use on Google.....
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Peter.