updating lots of servers

[Charles Sprickman]

On Tue, 22 Jun 2004, Gustavo A. Baratto wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I want to be able to push the changes from a development boxes to the
> other boxes... like In openbsd we can just make a big tarball in the
> development server, copy it to the orher boxes and untar it.
>
> I don't really like the idea of using nfs in the development server that
> has all the source code for many servers.

Me neither, but then I noticed most new servers come with two NICs, so I
put a cheap-ish 10/100 switch in and put all the boxes on a private
network not accessible from the internet.  You can run NFS on only those
inside interfaces and nfs mount your /usr/src, /usr/obj, and /usr/ports
through the private network.

It's very very handy, and very fast; build once on one server then do your
"make installkernel" and "make installworld" on each machine.  Works very
well...

Thanks,

Charles

> Any ideas?
>
> thanks :)
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