OT:Remote Software Management

[Joshua Baker-LePain]

On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 at 4:24pm, Wesley Miaw wrote

> Hi,
> 
> > - Sun's pprosvc for the Suns
> > - up2date for Redhat Linux machines
> > - yast for SuSE Linux machines
> > - manual updates for Windows machines(hey, I'm a UNIX 
> >   admin - not a miracle worker!)
> 
> I believe for multiple RedHat and SuSE machines they want you to look at RedHat
> Network and Alice respectively. You can also try to put everything together

You can also look at yum <http://www.dulug.duke.edu/yum/> for multiple 
RedHat machines (and other RPM based distros).  Yum has a lot of very nice 
features, like the ability to use multiple servers (even with different 
but overlapping contents).

There's also current <http://current.tigris.org/>, which is an OSS 
implementation of the server side of up2date, which allows you greater 
control over the content and not to have to pay RedHat.

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University