Management techiniques for multiple FreeBSD servers?

Paul Schmehl pauls at utdallas.edu
Tue Jan 9 23:01:09 UTC 2007


--On Tuesday, January 09, 2007 16:30:59 +0000 Howard Jones 
<howie at thingy.com> wrote:
>
> I'm looking around for any articles/docs regarding techniques for
> managing groups of FreeBSD servers - things like running a local package
> mirror or build server, standardised installs, update management - all
> the usual boring stuff. I know that people like Yahoo use thousands of
> *BSD systems, but does anyone have any pointers on tools to make
> day-to-day management of them scale?
>
Check out Richard Bejtlich's blog - Taosecurity
<http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/index.html>

Here's some topics that might be of particular interest to you:
<http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/01/more-freebsd-package-issues.html>
<http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2007/01/recovering-from-bad-freebsd-package.html>
<http://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/11/gvinum-on-freebsd.html>

Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


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