auto-softupdate

Cedric BRINER work at infomaniak.ch
Tue Mar 21 10:35:31 CET 2006


> we have chosen another strategy:
>  - I have written a small utility in perl, which logs in as root via ssh to
>    the clients and starts the updates there, tracks their status using a 
>    parser on the stdout of fai, and displays it in a not-so-well-designed ;)
>    curses UI. the tool keeps N machines updating at the same time, going 
>    through a list of all to-be-updated machines (the tool is called
>    fai-updater, and due to time limitations not yet published).

very interesting..
could you share/show with us this perl script ?
>    
>  - in regular intervals, someone starts an update on a group of
>    representative test machines, using fai-updater and can easily see if
>    something has gone wrong. if everything went well, fai-updater is set lose
>    on all the machines in the department.


Regards

Ced.



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Cedric BRINER
Geneva - Switzerland



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